Foliage is covered with short to long spreading hairs that are at right angles to the surfaces. Culm internodes hollow. Collar region typically long-hairy. Foliage mostly glabrous , pale to bluish-green. Sheaths glabrous .
Tillers often root at the base.
Rhizomes coarse, short, bulbous, robust. Spikelets lack awns and consist of a lower sterile floret and an upper fertile floret. 1 mm wide , detach as a unit. Glumes and sterile lemmas membranous. Panicles erect , pyramidal to ovate, open and diffuse at maturity, 15-40 cm long.