Culms (3)10–70 cm. Panicles to 10 cm, usually with more than 1 spikelet. Lemmas 6.5–8(9) mm, usually glabrous, margins often abruptly angled; awns straight, erect. Caryopses usually as long as the paleas.
Bromus hordeaceus subsp. pseudothominei grows sporadically throughout the range of the species in the Flora region. Hitchcock (1951) included B. hordeaceussubsp. pseudothominei in B. racemosus.