"Culms 40-65 cm high, 2 mm thick. Leaves 10-20 x 0.5 cm, stiff; margins scabrid towards the apex; bracts to 8 cm long. Spikelets 0.5-1 x 0.5 cm, obtuse; glumes 2.5 x 1 mm, obtusely acute, keeled, yellow or pale brown. Nut 1.2 x 0.4 mm, obtuse, hardly triquetrous, brown."