Loosely caespitose annual or short-lived perennial; culms up to 40 cm tall, erect or ascending; leaf laminas 2–5 cm × 2–4 mm, linear-lanceolate, flat or involute, rigid and subulate.Racemes 2.5–5 cm long, slender, loose, flexuous.Spikelets 2.8–4 mm long (excluding the awns); inferior glume 2–2.8 mm long, 0.5–0.65 times the length of the lowermost lemma; superior glume ± as long as the spikelet; fertile lemmas 1–2, 3.6–4.3 mm long, pilose on the margins and keel, otherwise glabrous, with an awn 10–15 mm long; sterile lemmas 1–2.
Habitat
Dambos and damp places beside rivers
Range
Known only from the Muchinga watershed in Zambia
Altitude range
1400–1700 m.
1700
1400
Distribution
Zambia C Serenje Distr., Kundalila Falls, 13 km SE of Kanona, 1400 m, 15.x.1967, Simon & Williamson 997 (K; SRGH).Zambia N Shiwa Ngandu, 1550 m, 23.ix.1938, Greenway 5767 (K).
