Perennial tufts, 4-25 cm, with culms ± hidden by leaf-sheaths and panicles overtopped by the soft, dull green leaves; branching intravaginal. Leaf-sheath glabrous, hyaline, whitish green, much wider than leaf-blade. Ligule 0.7-1.5 mm, erose. Leaf-blade 2-8 cm ×c. 1 mm, flat or folded, sometimes with inrolled margins, glabrous throughout, tip obtuse. Culm erect, or geniculate at base, internodes glabrous. Panicle 1.5-6 × 0.5-1 cm, lanceolate; branches few, short, erect, sharply angled, smooth to sparsely scabrid. Spikelets 4-6.5-(8) mm, 3-5-flowered, pale green, sometimes purplish. Glumes ± unequal, elliptic-ovate to elliptic-oblong, obtuse; lower 1.6-2.6 mm, 1-3-nerved, upper 2-3.5 mm, 3-(5)-nerved. Lemma 3-4 mm, 5-nerved, elliptic-ovate to elliptic-oblong, glabrous or with a few hairs at base and on nerves near base, midnerve almost reaching obtuse apex. Palea ˜ lemma, keels conspicuously long-ciliate at midway with shorter prickle-teeth in upper ¼, and glabrous in lower ¼, apex truncate to bifid, keels not excurrent. Rachilla 0.7-1.2 mm. Anthers 0.4-0.9 mm. Caryopsis 1.5-1.7 × 0.6-0.8 mm.
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Tufts perennial, 4–25 cm high; culms completely enclosed by leaf-sheaths, erect or geniculate at base. Leaves narrow, obtuse, folded or involute, smooth, glabrous, soft, overtopping panicles; sheath whitish green, much wider than lamina; ligule 0.7–1.5 mm long, erose. Panicle 1.5–6 cm long, narrow, with few, short, erect, angled branches. Spikelets few, 4–5 mm long. Glumes 1.5–3.5 mm long. Lemma 3–3.5 mm long, elliptic-oblong, obtuse with scarious tip. Callus sometimes with a few minute hairs. Palea with long-ciliate keels. Anthers 0.4–0.7 mm long.
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