Rhizome stout, long, 1-1.5 mm diam., shining, light brown; cataphylls smooth, grey or whitish; shoots 10-15 cm, branching several times intravaginally at or above ground. Leaf-sheath shining, white below, purplish above, striate, margins membranous, wide, glabrous. Ligule 0.2-0.3 mm, ciliate. Collar hairs few to many, 2-4 mm, rarely glabrous. Leaf-blade to 10 cm, divergent to erect, folded to flat and 1-2-4 mm wide, abaxially smooth, adaxially finely scabrid on ribs or glabrous; margins thickened, sparsely scabrid, tip blunt. Culm 3-10 cm, terete to laterally compressed, ridged, glabrous, bearing 1 leaf or leaf reduced to sheath, and a minute bract above. Raceme 0.5-2 cm, of (1)-2-5-9 lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, imbricate, spikelets c. 1-1.5 mm wide, frequently congested, rachis and pedicels flattened, scabrid on edges. Glumes indurated, lower glume if present a reduced bract, upper glume 4-6-(7) mm, minutely hairy above and on margins, ± golden ochreous often tinged pinkish at first, nerves 7 very weak; awn 0.5-2-(5) mm, scabrid. Lemma 3-3.75 mm, ovate-lanceolate, 1-nerved, firm-hyaline, glabrous. Palea 2.75-3.5 mm, transparent. Anthers c. 2-2.6 mm, apiculate, filaments ligulate. Gynoecium: ovary 0.75-1 mm; stigma-styles 3.5-5 mm. Caryopsis 1.5-2.0 × 0.75 mm; embryo 0.6-0.75 mm; pericarp thin, detaching with beak. Protogynous.
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