Perennial; culms decumbent at the base, rooting at the lower nodes, mostly 60-100 cm. long; sheaths much overlapping, keeled, glabrous; blades lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous, mostly 15-20 cm. long, 15-30 mm. wide; panicles mostly 15-20 cm. long, the pubescent branches and branchlets stiffly and abruptly as-cending to spreading; staminate spikelets 2 mm. long; pistillate spikelets 11-14 mm. long; glumes subequal, acute, about half as long as the fruit; fruit plump, densely pubescent all over except near the base and on the short, pointed tip.
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