Perennial; culms robust, erect, 1.5 m. or more high, the nodes densely appressed-pubescent; sheaths papillose or papillose-pilose, somewhat inflated; ligule 4-5 mm. long, densely ciliate; blades 30-60 cm. long, 1.5-4 cm. wide, glabrous or nearly so on both surfaces, the margins scabrous-serrate; panicles as much as 45 cm. long, the branches narrowly ascending or somewhat spreading, densely flowered, naked toward the base; spikelets 2 mm. long, acute, glabrous, the first glume acute or subobtuse, about half as long as the spikelet.
Home