Panicle 7–13 cm. long, ovate, sparsely to moderately branched, sparsely to densely clavellate hairy.
Leaf laminae 4–12 cm. long and 6–20 mm. wide, lanceolate, cordate or amplexicaul, acuminate.
Ascending perennial 60–90 cm. high, the base decumbent and rooting at the nodes
Very rarely with the clavellate hairs reduced to stumps or absent
Perennial with scrambling, branched culms 90–150 cm. long.