The species is
perennial and caespitose with
culms being long. The leaf-sheaths are tubular. Leaf-blades are stiff and are long and wide. They also have scabrous surface. The
panicle itself is open and pyramidal, and is long. The nodes are whorled and are long. Inflorence is comprised out of 60–120 fertile
spikelets with long
peduncle, which is also
glabrous. The spikelets themselves are made out of 1–2 fertile florets and are diminished at the apex. Fertile spikelets are
pediceled, the pedicels of which are filiform, oblong and are long. Fertile
lemma is chartaceous, keelless, ovate, pallid, is long and 7-veined. It surface is asperulous, while it margins are ciliated and hairy on the bottom. The apex of the lemma is obtuse. Sterile
florets are barren,
clumped, oblong, and long. Both the lower and upper
glumes are ovate, keelless, membranous, and have acute apexes. Their size is different; Lower glume is long, is pallid and purple coloured, while the upper one is long. Palea have ciliolated keels and is 2-veined. Flowers are fleshy, oblong, truncate, have 2
lodicules, 3 stamens and grow together. The
fruits are
caryopses and have an adherent
pericarp with linear
hilum. ==References==