cæspitose; culms 1 1/2 ft. long, glabrous or sparingly hairy above, 3–2-noded; leaves mostly basal; sheaths tight, lowest broad, whitish, softly and long villous at the base, not breaking up in fibres, upper glabrous except the shortly bearded nodes; blades narrow, linear, tapering to a long setaceous point, up to 6–8 in. by 1 lin., convolute, rather rigid, minutely puberulous above, glabrous or scantily hairy beneath; panicle 3–6 in. long, narrow, subflexuous; branches geminate or 3–4-nate, filiform, scabrid, scantily branched, the longest up to 2 in. long; spikelets brownish-yellow, 4–5 lin. long, glabrous; lower glume ovate, acute, 2 1/2–3 lin. long; upper lanceolate, truncate, 4–5 lin. long; lower floret ♂; valve lanceolate, acute, sub-5-nerved; pale linear-lanceolate, 3 lin. long; stamens 2; anthers 1 lin. long; hermaphrodite floret: valve linear-oblong, 2 lin. long, pubescent, 9-nerved, shortly bifid; callus pungent, villous; awn about 1 in. long, fine, kneed at the middle; pale not quite 2 lin. long; stamens as in the ♂. null
