Culms 20-45 cm, geniculate at the base, usually forming many tillers. Sheaths with hyaline margins, lower cauline sheath margins usually ciliate; blades 6-20 cm long, 3-6 mm wide. Spikes 5.5-8.2 cm long, 0.3-0.6 cm wide, narrowly cylindrical to slightly moniliform, with 6-12 spikelets; rudimentary spikelets absent; disarticulation in the rachises, the spikelets falling attached to the internodes above. Spikelets 7-8 mm long, 3-4 mm wide, cylindrical, scabrous, with 2-5 florets, distal 2 florets sterile. Glumes 5-7 mm, coriaceous, scabrous, rims thickened, apices obtuse to truncate, minutely denticulate, unawned; lemmas 6-8 mm, toothed and usually awned, awns usually solitary, awns of the lower spikelets to 4 cm, awns of the apical spikelets to 5.5 cm. Caryopses 5-6 mm, adhering to the lemmas and paleas. HaplomesD. 2n = 14.
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Culms often densely tufted, 18-30(-60) cm high, erect or geniculately ascending. Leaf-blades glabrous or sparsely hairy, up to 17 cm long, 2-6 mm wide. Spikes 5-10 cm long (excluding the awns), cylindrical, with 0(-2) vestigial spikelets at the base rhachis breaking up at maturity. Fertile spikelets 5-13; glumes of lateral spikelets 5-7.5 mm long, truncate, with a short, very blunt tooth on the upper margin; awns of terminal spikelet shorter than the spike.