perennial, tufted, glabrous; culms rather slender, erect, 2 ft. long, wiry, smooth, 2-noded, sheathed from the lower node to the panicle; sheaths firm, tight; ligule a line of very short hairs or the lowest a tuft of wool; blades coarsely setaceous, involute, 1/2–1 ft. long, firm, curved or flexuous, the uppermost exceeding the panicle, smooth below; panicle about 3/4 ft. by 1/2 ft., very lax; rhachis smooth; branches distant, 2–3-nate, up to 6 in. long, scantily and remotely branched, filiform, scaberulous or smooth below; branchlets capillary, flexuous; pedicels as long as the spike-lets or shorter; spikelets yellowish, secund, often nodding, 5–6 lin. long; glumes rather firm, rounded at the back, obtuse or emarginate, not mucronate, the upper twice as long as the lower; valve linear, produced into a short slightly twisted beak, smooth, somewhat exceeding the upper glume; callus 1/2 lin. long; awns continuous with the valve, up to 1 in. long, fine; pale broad, 1/2 lin. long, 2-nerved; lodicules 2/3 lin. long; anthers 2 lin. long, cells apiculate. null
