Culms to 150 cm tall. Ligules 0.9-3.2 mm long; blades 2-21 mm wide. Glumes usually not exceeding the florets, lanceolate to narrowly elliptic; lemmas 1.3-1.7 mm long, shortly sericeous along the veins. Caryopses 0.9-1.2 mm long, widely depressed obovate or obdeltate in cross section, usually with a narrow, shallow ventral groove, apices broadly obtuse to acute. 2n = 20.
Dinebra panicea subsp. brachiata extends from the southern half of the United States to Argentina. It is common in disturbed and mesic agricultural sites.