| Very like a Poa when opened out, but the leaves are scabrid at the sheaths. |
| The flowering glume is awned, strongly 5-nerved, nerves scabrid and ciliate, the lateral nerves being marginal. |
| The first glume is oblong-lanceolate, 5-nerved, pitted above the middle, with recurved margins and scabrid keels and nerves. |
| The second glume is lanceolate, acuminate, equal to or a little longer than the third glume with a scabrid keel. |
| The first glume is lanceolate, acute, shorter than the second, with a keel which is scabrid. |
| Leaves narrower, flat, tending to roll up, scabrid above and hairy beneath. |
