Vine, brownish flowers. Glabrous foliage leaves to 117mm x 9mm. Solitary spikelets with 4-6 small mucronat3 bracts to 3.6mm long, glabrous spikelet to 12.1mm long, glumes to 0.3mm long, mucronate scabrid sterile lemmas to 8mm long, scabrid fertile lemmas to 11.1mm long, heavily bearded with reddish-gold hairs