Erect, light purplish green perennial tufts to 50 cm, culms overtopping leaves; branching extravaginal; leaf-blades persistent. Leaf-sheath purplish, to later greyish, subcoriaceous, ribs inconspicuous, abaxially with minute prickle-teeth or hairs especially on midrib near ligule. Ligule c. 1.5-3 mm, apically glabrous, rounded, sometimes erose, abaxially with minute prickle-teeth or hairs. Leaf-blade 6-20 cm × (2)-3-6 mm, folded or flat, subcoriaceous, abaxially ± minutely scabrid on ribs, adaxially scabrid in lower ½ and on ribs above; margins scabrid, with some stiff short hairs at collar, tip ± curved, acuminate to often apiculate. Culm 10-40 cm, erect, internodes scabrid below panicle. Panicle 8-15 cm, lax, with slender spreading scabrid branches. Spikelets 6-8 mm, (2)-3-4-(5)-flowered, green or purplish. Glumes ± equal, 3-nerved, ovate-elliptic, nerves and internerves near tip ± scabrid; lower 3.5-5.5 mm, subacute, upper 4-5.5-(6) mm, subobtuse; margins scabrid. Lemma 4.5-6 mm, 5-nerved, oblong, obtuse, pubescent-scabrid on nerves, margins, and often on internerves. Palea 3.5-4.5 mm, keels ciliate-scabrid, interkeel scabrid. Callus with tuft of a few long crinkled hairs. Rachilla c. 1 mm, with a few long hairs; prolongation twice as long. Lodicules 0.5-0.6 mm. Anthers 1-1.5 mm. Caryopsis c. 1-2 × 0.5 mm.
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