Basal leaf sheaths not keeled, terete, glabrous to scabrous, with the veins equally striate. Reproductive organization . Incomplete spikelets absent. Inflorescence of chasmogamous spikelets. Inflorescence a panicle, erect, contracted, symmetrical, fully exserted.
Spikelets erect, spreading.
Hermaphrodite spikelets pedicellate, 8-11 mm long, laterally compressed, not disarticulating as a separate unit, disarticulating above the glumes. Pedicels to 10 mm long. Glumes two per spikelet, dissimilar , subequal to unequal in length, shorter than the florets. Awns 1, median. Lodicules 2, free, hyaline, glabrous.