The plant is
perennial and
caespitose with long
culms. The
ligule is long and is going around the eciliate membrane. Leaf-blades are
filiform and are long and wide. The
panicle is contracted, linear,
inflorescenced and long.
Spikelets are lanceolate, ovate, solitary, long, and have
pedicelled fertile spikelets that carry 2–6 fertile
florets which have a diminished apex. It also has a hairy
callus and scaberulous
palea keels. The
glumes are lanceolate, membranous, and keelless, have acute apexes, with the only difference being in size. The upper one is long while the other one is ovate and is long. Fertile
lemma is long and is also chartaceous, elliptic and keelless with scaberulous surface. Lemma itself is muticous with acute apex.
Flowers have a hairy
ovary and three
stamens that are long. The
fruits are
caryopses with an additional
pericarp, which just like flowers is hairy as well.
Hilum is linear. ==Habitat and distribution==