Annual. Culms erect, 35–40 cm tall, 6–8-noded, branching. Leaf sheaths densely hairy, hairs tubercle-based; leaf blades linear-lanceolate, 2–5 × 0.15–0.35 cm, adaxial surface reddish brown, abaxial surface yellowish brown, puberulous, hairs tubercle-based, apex acuminate; ligule ca. 0.5 mm. Racemes 1–2, 2.5–3.5 cm; rachis ca. 0.8 mm wide, usually glabrous. Spikelets oblong, ca. 3.5 mm, brown; lower glume shortly ciliate along keel, upper glume broadly winged along keel, wing margin shortly ciliate; upper lemma ca. 2.5 mm; awn ca. 8 mm, almost straight. Anthers ca. 0.8 mm. Caryopsis ca. 2 mm. Fl. and fr. Oct.

* Grassy hillsides; below 500 m. Guangxi.