Perennial; culms densely tufted, erect, 40-80 cm. high, the nodes densely pilose with ascending hairs; lower sheaths crowded, becoming fibrous with age, keeled, sparsely to rather densely ascending-pilose toward the summit, the upper ones elongate, nearly bladeless, glabrate; ligule membranaceous, very short; blades conduplicate, 5-50 cm. long, 0.5-1.5 mm. wide as folded, erect or nearly so, dense-ly pilose on the upper surface at the base; racemes 2 or rarely 3, approximate, 3-5.5 cm. long, the rachis narrowly winged, flexuous, densely pilose at the base; spikelets 4-4.5 mm. long, solitary, scarcely imbricate, with a short tuft of hairs on either side at the base; glume and sterile lemma equal, firm, pointed beyond the fruit; fruit 3.8-4.3 mm. long, pale, blunt, minutely striate, roughened.
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