Peduncles 12-95 mm long, occasionally pigmented, glabrous, smooth. 3-cornered, occasionally pigmented, glabrous. 5-14 spikelets on the rachis. Rachis angles scabrous. Primary inflorescence branches biseriate.
Spikelets biseriate, distichous, erect, spreading to appressed.
Hermaphrodite spikelets subsessile , 4.7-8.5 mm long, laterally compressed, oblong or elliptic, not disarticulating as a separate unit, disarticulating above the glumes. Glumes two per spikelet, similar, equal in length or subequal, lateral to the rachis, slightly shorter than the proximal lemma . Rudimentary florets distal to the hermaphrodite florets. Incomplete florets absent. Hermaphrodite florets 4-10 per spikelet.