Plants caespitose; innovation buds intravaginal. Culms 25–40 cm high. Inflorescences linearlanceolate. Spikelets 13–15 mm long, with 5 florets. Glumes substantially exceeding florets; lower glume 13–15 mm long, c. 4 mm wide. Lemma: body 3.4–3.5 mm long, villous between the rows of tufts; both rows of hair tufts complete, with lower row equalling upper row; lobes as long as body; setae 2–2.4 mm long, shorter than lobes; awn 11–11.9 mm long, with column tightly twisted. Palea linear to lorate, 5–5.2 mm long, narrow, 3–5 times as long as wide, much exceeding lemma sinus. Anthers 1 mm long. Caryopsis 1.9 mm long.