Panicle 2–5 cm. long, linear, sparsely branched, the branches appressed to the axis, scarcely exserted from the uppermost leaf-sheath.
Leaf laminae 3–8 cm. long and 1–3 mm. wide, flat or folded, acute or finely pointed, ascending or appressed to the culms.
Tufted annual with erect or geniculately ascending, slender culms 20–30 cm. high.