Perennial. Rhizome usually with very short internodes little more than the connective between almost contiguous, slightly swollen culm bases; scales pale brown. Culms 0.45-1.0(-1.35) m tall, glabrous. Leaves 1.4-5 mm broad, glabrous or sparsely pilose; mouths of sheaths truncate or convex. Inflorescence much elongated; terminal panicle c. 30 mm long; shorter Lateral panicles 2-4(-5) per node at 2-3 nodes on slender, unequally exserted drooping peduncles. Bracts foliaceous. Male spikelets pedicillate, 4-5 mm long with pedicels 1-8(-10) mm long; glumes stramineous or castaneous with green keels, glabrous. Female glumes similar with midrib excurrent into an awn c. 1 mm long; 3.5-4 mm long. Achene ovoid or subglobose, 2.7 x 1.7-1.9 mm. hairy, lightly tessellate-lacunose, grey or light brown, the hairs white or golden: hypogynium with three unguiculate lobes clasping the achene, light brown.
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