Vegetative form . Mid-culm internodes glabrous or puberulous.
Basal leaf sheaths glabrous or scabrous or pubescent.
Ligule thinly membranous. Primary inflorescence branches divaricate, filiform. Pedicels 1.3-3 mm long, slender. Hermaphrodite florets 2-3 per spikelet. Palea 2.2-2.6 mm long.