perennial, with numerous villous conical innovation-buds at the base, (base hence more or less bulbous); culms simple or scantily branched, erect or shortly ascending, up to 2 ft. long, 5–8-noded, villous or pubescent below the nodes, internodes mostly enclosed or subexserted; leaves villous or pubescent or glabrescent; sheaths striate, the upper tight; blades linear, long and finely attenuated, 2 1/2–4 in. by 2–3 lin., usually convolute at least above the middle, firm, rather rigid; panicle linear to oblong, 2–4 in. by 6–12 lin., somewhat loosely contracted; branches up to 1 in. long, 3–7-spiculate; spikelets 4–5 lin. long; glumes pubescent, nerves prominent, the lower 3–4 lin. long, ovate, the upper 4–5 lin., oblong; body of valves 1 1/2–2 lin. long, linear-lanceolate, lobes about 1 1/2 lin. long; awns 3–4 lin. long; flaps of pales long silky; anthers 1–1 1/2 lin. long; grain 7/8 lin. long. null
