It also has a pilose and scaberulous surface. The species is perennial with elongated rhizomes and pilose butt sheaths. Stems are white pilose with alternately arranged leaves. The leaf-blades are pilose and rough. The stalks of the leaves are as long as , pilose, and pink. They also have scabrous surface which is also pilose and hairy as well. It culms are long with butt sheaths being herbaceous and pilose. They have three sepals and are ovate, acute and glandular pilose externally, glabrous internally. The stem is normally green and sparsely pilose. The moderately to densely pilose leaf sheaths are mostly closed, with hairs long. The striate and pilose leaf sheaths have dense hairs. The slender pedicels are pilose or glabrate and from 2 to 4cm long. The sheath is pubescent to pilose lower on the plant but glabrous higher up. It also has scabrous bottom which can also be glabrous or pilose. Its eciliate membrane is long while its leaf-blades are long and wide with pilose surface.