Culms ca. 1 m, 2–3 mm in diam.; internodes terete, woolly or tomentose below nodes; nodes weakly prominent. Branches 1–3 per node, elongated, slender. Culm sheaths persistent; auricles and oral setae absent; ligule extremely short, nearly absent; blade deciduous, small. Leaves 1 or 2 per ultimate branch; sheath glabrous or apically slightly hairy, margins ciliate; auricles and oral setae weakly developed or absent; ligule extremely short; blade lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, ca. 15 × 19 cm, abaxially setulose, adaxially glabrous, one margin roughly hairy. Inflorescence paniculate, lateral; spikelets ca. 10; rachilla glabrous or hairy at base; pedicel densely puberulous; florets 2 or 3, loosely arranged. Glumes 2; lemma ovate, adnately hairy; palea about as long as lemma, keels densely hairy; lodicules 3, subequal. Ovary glabrous; stigmas 2. Caryopsis unknown. New shoots Apr.
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