The species have elongated
rhizomes and erect
culms which are long. The leaf-blades are long and wide while their bottom is rough and scabrous. Their apex is acute and their margins are ciliated. It also has
lacerated membrane which is long. The
panicle is contracted, linear, long and wide. The main panicle branches are whorled and are long with scabrous axis. Spikelets are solitary and obovate with fertile
spikelets being pedicelled, pedicels of which are
ciliated, curved, and filiform. The
spikelets have two fertile florets which are diminished at the apex. Both spikelets and lower glumes are long. The upper
glume is
emarginated, lanceolated, membranous, is long and 1.2 length of the top fertile
lemma. Lemma is elliptic and have hairs which are in length, while it margins are pilose. The bottom of the upper glume is scabrous while the lower glume bottom is either asperulous or smooth with a rough top. The lower glume by itself is elliptic just like lemma, with an erose apex. The species
palea is elliptic too, is long and have 2 veines. Paleas keels are
ciliated and adorned. Flowers are fleshy, oblong, truncate, and grow together. They have 3
anthers each of which is long. ==Ecology==