Inflorescence 10–16 cm long, linear-oblong, contracted; racemes 6–10, up to 5 cm long, somewhat rigid, straight, erect and often appressed to the axis, the spikelets less than their own length apart.
Caespitose perennial; culms up to 60 cm tall, erect or ascending; leaf laminas 4–12 cm × 3–5 mm, linear, flat or subulately convolute, tapering to a fine point.