Perennial; culms 40-110 cm. high, suberect to spreading, rather coarse, ap-pressed papillose-hispid especially below the nodes; sheaths longer or shorter than the internodes, densely papillose-hispid with appressed or spreading hairs; ligule ciliate, about 1 mm. long; blades 15-40 cm. long, 5-10 mm. wide, thick and firm, ascending, gradually acuminate, densely hirsute to nearly glabrous; panicles terminal and axillary from the upper sheaths, included at the base, overlapping, the branches spreading, implicate, piloso in the axils; spikelets 3.5 mm. long, pointed, some-what attenuate at the base, sparsely hirsute, the first glume acuminate, two-thirds as long as the spikelet; fruit 2.1 mm. long, smooth and shining.
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