Perennial; culms tufted, erect, 1-1.5 m. high, appressed papillose-pilose, the nodes bearded; sheaths keeled, elongate, mostly longer than the internodes, glabrous to densely papillose-pilose, especially toward the summit; ligule brown, truncate, about 1 mm. long; blades elongate, mostly 4-6 mm. wide, acuminate or sometimes attenuate, narrowed toward the base, glabrous to more or less papillose or papillose-hirsute, the uppermost wanting or very much reduced; racemes 15-20 cm. long, curved, on long slender peduncles, the rachis winged, 3-4 mm. wide; spikelets 4 mm. long, villous; first glume minute; second glume longer than the fruit, acumi-nate; sterile lemma slightly shorter than the second glume, acute, sulcate, slightly divided at the summit, the palea prominent, nearly as long as the lemma; fertile lemma 3.5 mm. long, narrowly ovate, pale, minutely striate, subacute.
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