Tufted perennial; culms 40–180 cm. high, slender to moderately stout, erect or geniculately ascending.. Leaf-blades linear, 10–35 cm. long, 2.5–14 mm. wide, long-attenuate, flat or rarely folded, scabrid on both sides.. Inflorescence 10–30 cm. long, composed of up to 20 spike-like racemes clustered towards the top of the main axis; racemes slender, 5–16 cm. long, usually ascending but occasionally spreading, straight or gently curved.. Spikelets 6–14-flowered, oblong, 4–7 mm. long, overlapping; glumes sub-equal, obtuse, lower glume oblong, 1.8–2.3 mm. long, upper glume oblong to lanceolate-oblong, 2–2.6 mm. long; lemmas exserted from the glumes, elliptic-oblong, 1.7–2.5 mm. long, shortly hairy along the lower part of the nerves, emarginate to bluntly 2-lobed.. Grain elliptic-oblong, 1–1.2 mm. long, brown, concavo-convex in cross-section, pericarp free.
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