perennial, culms ascending, divided above the base into somewhat spreading long leafy flowering branches, slender, 1 1/2–2 ft. long, minutely hairy or glabrous, many-noded, internodes exserted; sheaths tight, thin, striate, hairy, often with tubercle-based hairs or glabrescent except at the nodes and near the junction with the blade; ligule a minutely ciliolate rim; blades spreading, lanceolate from a rounded base, acutely acuminate, 1 1/2–3 in. by 1/4– 1/2 in., flat, very thin, sparingly and finely hairy, margins scabrid; panicle erect, very lax, delicately and divaricately branched, about 1/2 ft. long; axis filiform, terete and smooth below, angular and finely scabrid above; branches in fascicles of 4–2 or solitary, unequal, at length spreading, finely filiform to capillary, very laxly divided, often from 1–2 in. above the base; branchlets and pedicels extremely fine, scaberulous, lateral pedicels 1–4 lin. long, tips scarcely thickened; spikelets oblong, acute at both ends, slightly more than 1 lin. long, glabrous, green; glumes, very thinly herbaceous, lower broadly ovate, subobtuse, 1/2 lin. long, 3-nerved; upper glume somewhat remote from the lower, oblong, acute, almost 1 lin. long, 5-nerved, middle nerve scaberulous above; lower floret barren; valve like the upper glume, but slightly longer; pale 1/2 the length of the valve; hermaphrodite floret oblong, obliquely apiculate or acute, equalling or slightly exceeding the upper glume; valve subcoriaceous, whitish, faintly 5-nerved; anthers 1/2 lin. long; grain obovoid, 1/2 lin. long, white. null
