densely cæspitose with intravaginal innovation shoots; culms erect, slender, about 1 1/2 ft. high, smooth, 2-noded, uppermost node at or below the middle; sheaths closed at the base only, tight, smooth, thin, lowest subpersistent; ligule very short, more or less obtusely auricled; blades filiform, acute, 4–8 in. long, folded, flexuous, 5–7-nerved, smooth on the back, scabrid on the face; panicle contracted, narrow, flexuous, 2–6 in. long; rhachis angular, scabrid or smooth below; branches usually solitary, lower remote, flexuous or straight, finely filiform, scaberulous, very sparingly branched from near the base, or the lowest up to 1 1/2–2 in. long, and undivided for 1/2–1 in.; lateral pedicels short to very short; spikelets elliptic-oblong to oblong, 4–6 lin. long, 3–8-flowered, greenish; glumes equal or subequal, lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, acute, 1 1/2–2 1/2 lin. long, herbaceous-membranous, scaberulous, lower 1-, upper 3-, nerved; valves linear-lanceolate in profile, acute, usually produced into a short fine bristle, smooth or very finely scaberulous near the tip; nerves 5, very faint; keels of pales scaberulous; lodicules ovate-lanceolate; anthers up to 1 1/2 lin. long; top of ovary minutely hispid. null