Perennial; culms 15-60 cm. long, in small spreading tufts, ascending or spread-ing, sometimes rooting at the lower nodes, usually branching; sheaths longer than the internodes, loose, sparsely to densely papillose-pilose; ligule 2-3 mm. long, brown; blades 5-25 cm. long, 3-10 mm. wide, the uppermost reduced, flat, acumi-nate, pilose or papillose-pilose, sometimes sparsely so, especially on the lower sur-face; racemes 2-6, 2-7 cm. long, ascending or spreading, often arcuate, the rachis 1-1.3 mm. wide, the margins scabrous, with a tuft of long hairs in the axils; spikelets 2-2.3 mm. long, solitary, elliptic or obovate, glabrous or rarely pubescent; fruit dark brown at maturity, shining, minutely striate.
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