Perennial; culms straggling or clambering, geniculate, branching, rooting at the nodes, mostly 1-2 m. long; sheaths shorter than the internodes, glabrous, often ciliate on the margins; blades 8-15 cm. long, 1-2 cm. wide, lanceolate, acuminate, often asymmetrical, rounded or subcordate at the base, sparsely pilose, more or less ciliate, at least near the base; panicles mostly 20-30 cm. long, diffuse, the branches rather stiffly spreading or even reflexed at maturity, the branchlets becoming implicate; spikelets 1.2-1.5 mm. long on long slender spreading pedicels, glabrous, the first glume about one-fifth as long as the spikelet.
Damp thickets, swamps, river banks, and along trails in forests at elevations from sea level to about 500 metres.
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