Plants caespitose; innovation buds intravaginal. Culms 8–35 cm high. Leaf blades thick and rigid. Inflorescences obliquely ovate; branches glabrous. Spikelets 11–15 mm long, with 4–5 florets. Glumes slightly exceeding florets; lower glume 11–15 mm long, 1–2 mm wide. Lemma: body 2.3–3 mm long, with margins straight or with poorly developed auricles, villous between the rows of tufts; upper row of hair tufts complete; lower row of tufts complete or of only marginal tufts, not reaching or equalling upper row; lobes longer than lemma body, but not twice as long; setae 2–6 mm long, shorter than to longer than lobes; awn 10–13.7 mm long, exceeding setae; awn column tightly twisted, equalling lobes. Palea 4–6.5 mm long, linear, 5–8 times as long as wide, much exceeding lemma sinus, ±equalling lemma lobes. Anthers 1.2–2.6 mm long. Caryopsis 1.7–2.2 mm long.
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