Echinopogon cheelii is a loosely tufted
perennial grass that grows up to in height. The leaf-blades are linear or lanceolate, long, and wide. The surface is generally hairless but sometimes has very soft hairs. The panicle is ovate or ovate-oblong generally (with smaller panicles forming a dense, triangular shape), long and wide including awns. Spiketlets are long and either erect or slightly spreading below. Glumes are acute to acuminate and firmly membranous. The keel is rigidly ciliate and scabrid. Lemma is typically longer than glumes. It is linear-lanceolate in shape. ==Distribution and habitat==