culms much branched, densely fascicled from a long very slender prostrate base, 3–6 in. long, glabrous, rather many-noded, internodes enclosed except the uppermost; leaves glabrous, finely scaberulous; sheaths tight, striate; ligules 1/2 lin. long; blades linear, acute, very narrow, 1–1 1/2 in. long, setaceously convolute, rather rigid; panicle reduced to a loose 4–6-spiculate secund raceme, 1–1 1/2 lin. long; pedicels erect, tips curved; spikelets nodding, 2 1/2–3 lin. long, pallid; fertile florets 2; glumes subequal, both scarious, the lower ovate, acute, up to 2 lin. long, the upper oblong, acuminate, slightly longer; valves equalling or slightly exceeding the glumes, the fertile oblong, subobtuse, almost smooth on the back, hairy along the sides; hairs 1 lin. or slightly more long, innermost side-nerves very faint, body of barren valves clavate to oblong, glabrous; anthers over 1/2 lin. long. null
