The species is perennial and tufted with short
rhizomes and erect
culms that are long. Each leaf has a truncate ligule which is long, and obtuse. The leaf-blades are by ,
hairless and have both a
scabrous surface and an
attenuate apex. The
panicle has a scaberulous
peduncle and is lanceolate, open, continuous, and is long by wide. Flowers have a pair of
lodicules and
stigmas, and three
anthers which are long. The
fruit is a
caryopsis with an additional
pericarp. ==References==