The species is perennial with short rhizomes. It culms are erected and long while the plant stem is smooth. The leaf-sheaths are scabrous, tubular, closed on one end and are glabrous on surface. The leaf-blades are flat, stiff, and are long by wide. They also have scabrous margins and surface, the later one of which is rough. The eciliate membrane have a ligule which is long and have a pubescent surface. The panicle is open, linear, and is long by wide. The main panicle branches are appressed with scaberulous and dominant axis.
