Tufted, dull green perennial, from a slender rhizome, leaves narrow, ± erect; ± reaching top of culms; new shoots extravaginal at plant base, intravaginal above; laminae persistent. Sheaths very light green or pale brown, membranous, shredding into fibres; ligule ± obtuse and slightly erose across top, slightly scabrous abaxially; lamina 0.5-c. 1.5 mm wide, abaxially smooth, adaxially minutely ciliatescabrous along nerves, margins and midrib smooth, tip curved. Culms usually slightly scabrous below panicle. Panicle lax, with few large spikelets borne singly at tips of filiform, finely scabrous branchlets. Spikelets 3-5-flowered, brownish-green or greenish- purple. Glumes smooth, but occasionally scabrous on midnerve near tip; lower glume 3-nerved, upper 3-(5)-nerved. Lemma 5-7-nerved, nerves minutely scabrous with a few short hairs near base of midnerve and outer lateral nerves, internerves glabrous, often scabrous towards tip. Palea minutely closely scabrous on keels, smooth elsewhere. Lodicules 0.5-0.7 mm long. Callus with a very small tuft of long crinkled hairs. Rachilla c. 1 mm long, sparsely scabrous, projection to twice as long. Caryopsis c. 1.5 × 0.7 mm. Endemic

Tufted, dull green, slenderly rhizomatous perennial with narrow, ± erect leaves, ± reaching top of culms; branching extravaginal at plant base, intravaginal above; leaf-blades persistent. Leaf-sheath very light green or pale brown, membranous, shredding into fibres. Ligule apically glabrous, ± obtuse and slightly erose, abaxially slightly scabrid. Leaf-blade 0.5-c. 1.5 mm wide, abaxially smooth, adaxially minutely ciliate-scabrid on ribs; margins and midrib smooth, tip curved. Culm slender, internodes usually slightly scabrid below panicle. Panicle lax, with few large spikelets borne singly at tips of filiform, finely scabrid branches. Spikelets 3-5-flowered, brownish green or greenish purple. Glumes smooth, but occasionally scabrid on midnerve near tip; lower 3-nerved, upper 3-(5)-nerved. Lemma 5-7-nerved, nerves minutely scabrid with a few short hairs near base of midnerve and outer lateral nerves, internerves glabrous, often scabrid towards tip. Palea minutely closely scabrid on keels, smooth elsewhere. Callus with very small tuft of long crinkled hairs. Rachilla c. 1 mm, sparsely scabrid; prolongation to twice as long. Lodicules 0.5-0.7 mm. Caryopsis c. 1.5 × 0.7 mm.