Perennial; culms 5-50 cm. long, creeping, rooting at the lower nodes, com-pressed, glabrous; the ascending branches 12-30 cm. high, nodes glabrous or appressed-pubescent; sheaths longer or shorter than the internodes, compressed, glabrous or with a few hairs at the throat; ligule membranaceous, about 0.3 mm. long; blades 5-13 cm. long, 4-9 mm. wide, flat, somewhat rounded at the base, glabrous; racemes 2-3, exserted or partly included, erect or ascending, rather thick, 1.5-4 cm. long, the rachis narrowly winged, 1-1.5 mm. wide, glabrous; spikelets 1.7-1.8 mm. long, depressed-hemispheric, the pedicels flat; glume and sterile lemma equal, thin, loose, irregularly wrinkled, glabrous; fruit about 1.6 mm. long, reddish-brown, smooth and shining.
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