Caespitose, phyllopodic perennial graminoid. Culms terete, slender, 258-363 x 0.4-0.7 mm. Leaves basal, 1-3(-7), (61-)82-170 x 0.2-1.0 mm, usually curled with age, proximally channelled, margins serrate above sheath. Sheaths firm but often shredding with age, usually loosely clasping culm, longitudinally striate. Ligule firm, 0.3-1.4 mm long. Inflorescence a contracted pseudolateral panicle, 11-23x 3-7 mm, proximal rachis length usually relatively short, 6-12 mm. Proximal primary inflorescence bracts slender, brittle, not channelled, apex acute to acuminate, never widened at base, 28-56(-67) mm long, exceeding length of inflorescence up to several times, without notable longitudinal veins. Proximal and subproximal primary inflorescence bracts never with membranaceous extensions at base. Spikes 3-6, (3.0-)5.0-9.1(-16.0) mm long, overlapping. Spikelets ovate, 2.8-3.0 x 1.0-1.5 mm, pedicellate, 3-5 spikelets per spike, reddish-brown sometimes with narrow hyaline margins. Proximal spikelet prophyll 1 per spikelet, prophylls with a raised vein extending to mucro, 0.6-1.4 mm long, firm, usually shining, prophyll mucro 2.9-5.0 mm long. Rachilla 0.8-2.8 mm long. Glumes 5-7 per spikelet, proximal glume 0.8-1.3 mm long, subproximal glume 0.9-1.2(-3.8) mm long, upper glumes longer than basal ones, apex acute to acuminate. Glume proximal mucro 0.3-1.6 mm long, subproximal mucro 0.1-1.4 mm long. Stamens 3 per floret, anthers 1.4-2.0(-3.7) mm long. Stigmas (2)3-branched, vestigial stigmas of second bisexual floret sometimes present. Perianth bristles not observed. Nutlet not present on examined specimens.
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