Mid-culm nodes glabrous, exposed, constricted. Basal leaf sheaths not keeled, terete, glabrous, with the veins equally striate. Reproductive organization . Incomplete spikelets absent. Inflorescence a panicle , erect, contracted, symmetrical, partially exserted.
Spikelets erect, spreading.
Hermaphrodite spikelets pedicellate, 10-16 mm long, laterally compressed, not disarticulating as a separate unit, disarticulating above the glumes. Pedicels to 20 mm long, erect, scabrous. Awns 1, median. Lodicules 2, hyaline, acute, glabrous. Anthers 2.2-3 mm long.