Panicle 6–10 cm. long, broadly ovate or oblong, secondary branches usually reduced or absent, the spikelets appearing to be pseudoracemosely arranged on the ascending primary branches.
Leaf laminae 3–6 cm. long and 8–17 mm. wide, narrowly ovate, amplexicaul, pilose, sharply acute.
Annual; culms erect, 30–70 cm. high.