Culms 30–50 cm tall, smooth, glabrous. Leaf sheath glabrous or puberulent proximally; ligule very short; leaf blade glaucous, flat, 0.2–0.6 cm wide, abaxial surface glabrous, adaxial surface and margin scabrous or puberulent. Spike erect, 4–8 × 0.6–1 cm; rachis margin hispid. Spikelets 1 at each node, glaucous or purplish glaucous, 1.1–1.7 cm, with 4–7 florets. Glumes linear-lanceolate, 5–9 mm, stiff, veinless or midvein obscure. Lemma broadly lanceolate, 6–8 mm, 5–9-veined, smooth, glabrous, awnless or with awn ca. 2 mm. Fl. and fr. Jun–Aug.
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