Plants caespitose; innovation buds intravaginal. Culms 15–80 cm high. Inflorescences linearlanceolate or rarely obliquely ovate. Spikelets 9–15 mm long, with 4–7 florets, narrow. Glumes slightly exceeding florets; lower glume 9–15 mm long, c. 2.5 mm wide. Lemma: body 2.2–3.3 mm long, villous between the rows of tufts; both rows of hair tufts complete, with lower row not reaching to equalling upper row; lobes as long as body; setae 0.5–3 mm long, shorter than lobes; awn 6.9–10.8 mm long, exceeding setae; awn column with 1 or 2 twists, shorter than lobes. Palea elliptic to ovate, 4–5 mm long, 1–1.4 mm wide, narrow, 3–5 times as long as wide, much exceeding lemma sinus, not quite reaching lemma lobes. Anthers 0.5–2.6 mm long. Caryopsis 1.4–1.7 mm long.
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