"Culm sheaths deciduous, purple-green when fresh, pale brown when dry, papery, strigose, densely retrorsely puberulent at base, margins brown ciliate; auricles and oral setae absent; ligule pale brown, arcuate, abaxially hispidulous, white ciliolate; blade deciduous with articulate base, erect, narrowly triangular to linear-lanceolate, both surfaces pubescent especially toward base, margins brown c" . . . .