Panicle 5–12 cm. long, ovate, bearing 5–40 triads of spikelets with connate pedicels.
Spikelets 8–10 mm. long, golden brown, pilose from rows of black tubercles.
Inferior glume almost as long as spikelet.
Callus linear, bluntly pointed.
Culms 60–90 cm. high.
Tufted perennial.