Culms to 100 cm high, 2-4 noded. Mid-culm nodes glabrous, exposed, constricted. Reproductive organization . Incomplete spikelets absent. Inflorescence a panicle, erect, open or contracted, symmetrical.
Spikelets erect, spreading.
Hermaphrodite spikelets pedicellate, 10-17 mm long, laterally compressed, not disarticulating as a separate unit, disarticulating above the glumes. Pedicels to 20 mm long, erect, scabrous, straight. Lemma 7 veined. Awns 1, median. Lodicules 2, free, hyaline, acute, glabrous.