Perennial; culms relatively slender, straggling, sparingly to rather freely branching, sometimes rooting at the lower nodes, mostly about 1 m. long, pilose at least below the nodes; sheaths usually much shorter than the internodes, papillose-hispid especially toward the summit, densely pubescent on the collar; blades 5-10 cm. long, 6-12 mm. wide, acuminate, somewhat narrowed toward the more or less rounded base, pilose on the lower surface especially along the midnerve, papillose-hispid on the upper surface; panicles 10-15 cm. long, oblong, the slender flexuous spreading branches in rather distant fascicles; spikelets 2.3-2.5 mm. long on long or rather short capillary flexuous pedicels, sparsely pilose on the margins of the glumes and sterile lemma, the first glume about half as long as the spikelet; fruit 1.7 mm. long, smooth and shining.
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