Perennial with slender rhizomes. Culms usually solitary, erect from ascending base, 40–50 cm tall, 2–3 mm in diam., pubescent below panicle, 2–3-noded. Leaf sheaths longer than internodes, loose, lower sheaths pilose; leaf blades broadly linear, flat, 7–10 cm, 4–5 mm wide, scaberulous on both surfaces and margins; ligule 1.5–3 mm, truncate, margin ciliolate. Panicle scarcely exserted from uppermost leaf sheath, dense, elliptic in outline, lobed, 12–15 cm, pale yellowish; branches erect or slightly spreading, pubescent, densely clothed in branchlets and spikelets, lowest 6–8 cm. Spikelets 5.5–6 mm, florets 3; rachilla hairs ca. 1 mm; glumes slightly unequal, acuminate, lower glume narrowly lanceolate, ca. 5 mm, upper glume narrowly elliptic-oblong, 5.7–5.9 mm; lemma narrowly lanceolate-oblong, 5–5.3 mm, scabrid, awned from upper 1/4, apex entire; awn 3.2–3.4 mm, almost straight, slightly recurved at base, not twisted; palea keels scabrid. Anthers 1–1.1 mm. Fl. Aug.
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