The species is
perennial and caespitose with
culms that are long. The leaf-sheaths are tubular and are closed on one end while the leaf-blades are long and wide. The membrane is eciliated, long, and is pubescent on the surface. The
panicle is open, linear, is long and carry 4–6 fertile
spikelets. The main panicle
branches are indistinct and almost
racemose. Spikelets are oblong, pendulous and solitary. They are also long and have fertile spikelets that are
pediceled. The pedicels are filiform, curved, and puberulous. The spikelets have 1-2 fertile flores which are diminished at the apex while the sterile florets are only 2-3 in number and are barren, lanceolate,
clumped and are long. Both the upper and lower
glumes are keelless, membranous, and oblong. They are also long and have obtuse apexes. Its
palea have thick keels and obtuse apex. Flowers are fleshy, oblong and truncate. They also grow together and have 3
anthers that are long. The
fruits are
caryopsis with additional pericarp and linear
hilum. ==Ecology==