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. Fertile lemma margins inrolled . Spikelets ovate to elliptic, 1-2 per node.