Perennial; culms 40-80 cm. high, erect, simple, glabrous or appressed-pubes-cent toward the summit; sheaths mostly longer than the internodes, the lower papillose-hirsute, the upper nearly glabrous; ligule membranaceous, ciliate, about 0.5 mm. long; blades 8-25 cm. long, 2-3 mm. wide, the uppermost reduced, involute-setaceous or flat toward the base, papillose-pilose or the lower surface glabrous; racemes 2.5-10 cm. long, solitary or paired, ascending, the rachis 5-7 mm. wide, golden-brown or purplish, the short peduncle pubescent; spikelets about 3 mm. long, solitary, closely imbricate on short radiately pilose pedicels; glume and sterile lemma subequal, the margins fringed with white hairs, those on the upper half much exceeding the spikelet; fruit 2 mm. long, minutely stipitate, smooth and shining.
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