Mid-culm internodes hollow, glabrous or scabrous, terete. Basal leaf sheaths not keeled, terete, slightly scabrous, with the veins equally striate. Reproductive organization . Incomplete spikelets absent. Inflorescence a panicle, erect, contracted, symmetrical, partially exserted.
Spikelets erect, spreading.
Hermaphrodite spikelets pedicellate, 9-15 mm long, laterally compressed, not disarticulating as a separate unit, disarticulating above the glumes. Pedicels to 20 mm long, scabrous to hispid. Rudimentary florets distal to the hermaphrodite florets. Incomplete florets absent. Awns 1, median.