Mid-culm nodes glabrous, exposed, constricted. Mid-culm internodes hollow, glabrous, terete to compressed. Reproductive organization . Incomplete spikelets absent. Inflorescence a panicle, erect, symmetrical, partially exserted.
Spikelets erect, spreading.
Hermaphrodite spikelets pedicellate, 9-21 mm long, laterally compressed, not disarticulating as a separate unit, disarticulating above the glumes. Pedicels to 20 mm long, scabrous. Rudimentary florets distal to the hermaphrodite florets. Incomplete florets absent. Lemma 7 veined.