The plant is
perennial and caespitose with erect
culms that are long. They are also
clumped and have light brown coloured butt sheaths. The
ligule is going around the eciliate membrane with the leaf sheaths being open and hairy. Leaf-blades are filiform, conduplicate, light green in colour, and are broad. They also have smooth surface and
peduncle. The
panicle is linear, open,
inflorescenced and is long.
Spikelets are elliptic and solitary with
pedicelled fertile spikelets that carry 4-6 fertile
florets. The main
panicle branches are hairy. The
glumes are chartaceous, lanceolate, and keelless. They also have acute apexes, while only the upper glume is sized . Fertile
lemma is long and is also chartaceous, lanceolate, keelless, and are of the same colour as leaf blades. The main lemma have an acuminate apex and carries one
awn that is long.
Flowers have three
stamens while the
fruits are
caryopses with an additional
pericarp and linear
hilum. ==References==