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Information culms slender, erect, over 1 ft. long, glabrous, smooth, uppermost internodes over 1/2 ft. long, exserted; culm-leaves (only known) glabrous; sheaths tight, terete, smooth, uppermost 5–5 1/2 in. long; blades linear, acute, lower up to 1 1/2 in. by 1 1/4 lin., flat, subglaucous, smooth, uppermost very short or obsolete; panicle 3 1/2–5 in. long; axis filiform, less than 1 in. long, scaberulous, purplish; branches 3–4 1/2 in. long, finely filiform, subflexuous, scaberulous, purplish, bearing subsessile spikelets from the base or little distance above it; spikelets narrow, reddish, 2 1/2–3 lin. long (exclusive of the awns), lowest distant, upper rather close; glumes linear-lanceolate, acute, glabrous, lower somewhat shorter; fertile valves white above, purple below, finely pubescent, 1 1/2–2 lin. long, teeth slender; awn scabrid below, very fine, 3–4 lin. long, erect; cluster of barren valves distinctly overtopped by the fertile (except for the awns); pales 1 1/2 lin. long; anthers unknown; stigmas orange-coloured. null

Information Caespitose perennial; culms up to 50 cm tall, erect or ascending, wiry; leaf laminas (1)2–6(9) cm × 1.5–2.7(3) mm, narrowly linear, rather stiff, glaucous, flat or more often involute.Racemes 3–8 cm long, slender, loose, flexuous.Spikelets 4.6–6.5 mm long (excluding the awns); inferior glume 3.4–5.1 mm long, (0.8)0.9–1.2 times the length of the lowermost lemma; superior glume ± as long as the spikelet; fertile lemmas 1–2(3), 3.2–5.3 mm long, pilose on the back, with an awn up to 5 mm long (sometimes more); sterile lemmas 3–5.