It has divided leaves, the surfaces are glabrous or adaxially sparsely appressed pubescent. Flower buds are imbricate, appressed with loose exposed outer scales. The main panicle branches are appressed with dominant and scabrous axis. The main branches are appressed and carry oblong and solitary spikelets that are long. The lower leaves have short petioles and the upper leaves are appressed against the stem. The leaflets are all a dark green and with appressed trichomes on both surfaces. Its peduncle is long while the main branches are appressed and are . The thallus may be appressed to the substrate or may be loosely attached. A consists of a mix of both long flexuous and short appressed setae. The whorled leaves are scale-like and closely appressed. It has very prominent basal and apical patches of appressed white scale. The herbage is coated thinly in hairs appressed flat against the surface. The eye region is clothed with white appressed hairs. It is covered with appressed fibrils, soon disappearing. The metatarsals are closely appressed and held vertical.