scaberulous

pedicels glabrous, scaberulous, rarely with a few hairs toward the apex.

pedicels long, capillary, scaberulous.

rachis tough, glabrous or margin scaberulous.

branches 2 or 3 per node, lowest up to 3. 5 cm, erect, scaberulous or pubescent, bearing branchlets and short-pedicelled spikelets to base.

Culms to 100 cm tall, ca. 10 mm in diam. , stout, scaberulous pubescent below raceme.

leaf blades acicular, convolute, up to 20 cm, outer surface smooth or scaberulous;

rachis internodes glabrous, scaberulous or smooth, nodes glabrous;

lower glume oblong-lanceolate, smooth on back, keels scaberulous above middle and narrowly winged at apex;

glumes lanceolate-oblong, equal, keel scaberulous toward apex, apex acute;

lower glume firmly membranous, shallowly convex, scaberulous or puberulous toward apex varying to appressed-pubescent throughout;

central axis and branches scaberulous;

lemma lanceolate-oblong, ca. 1 cm, keel scaberulous, pubescent, entirely or in upper half;

central axis scaberulous or almost smooth;

glumes lanceolate, as long as spikelet, 5-veined, almost smooth or scaberulous;

lower primary branches in groups of 2 or 3, upper single, long naked below, scaberulous;