The species is
perennial and caespitose with
culms long. The internodes are scaberulous. The leaf-sheaths are tubular and scabrous, closed for part of their length. The ligule is a papery membrane which lacks hairs. The leaf-blades are long and wide. The leaf-blade tip is acuminate. The
panicle itself is open and linear, and is long by wide. It axis are scabrous with smooth branches. The spikelets themselves are ovate and are long while the
rachilla internodes are long. Fertile spikelets are
pediceled, the pedicels of which are filiform and puberulous. The florets are diminished at the apex. Its fertile
lemma is elliptic, scarious and is long while lemma itself is keelless with dentate apex. Glumes are very different. Although both are keelless, the lower
glume is oblong and long while the upper one is obovate and is long. Palea have ciliolated keels and is 2-veined. Flowers have 3
anthers which are long. The species'
fruits are
caryopses, in length, and have an additional
pericarp with linear
hilum. == Ecology ==