Perennial; culms 15-20 cm. high, simple or branched from the lower nodes, stiffly erect or geniculate-spreading at the nodes; sheaths crowded, much longer than the short internodes, keeled, glabrous; ligule membranaceous, ciliate, about 1 mm. long including the cilia; blades 8-10 cm. long, 5-10 mm. wide, acuminate, rounded and clasping at the base, the margins and lower surface glabrous, the upper surface sparsely to densely papillose-pilose or villous; panicles 5-8 cm. long, short-exserted or partly enclosed in the sheath, the branches and branchlets stiffly ascend-ing or spreading, naked at the base; spikelets 3.5 mm. long, appressed, glabrous; first glume 1.5 mm. long, broad, clasping, triangular, acute; second glume and sterile lemma equal, acute, pointed beyond the fruit; fruit 3 mm. long, 1.1 mm. wide, abruptly acute or pointed, with a few short hairs at the tip.
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