Joints and pedicels are slender, sparsely ciliate.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference

Palea is 3-nerved, narrow acuminate with a ciliate keel.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference

Base of involucel rounded; inner bristles shorter, erect, not ciliate 1.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference

Panicle more or less contracted and margin of flowering glumes not ciliate.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference

Base of involucel turbinate, inner bristles longer, spreading and spinescent, ciliate at base 2.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference

The sheath may be glabrous or hairy, smooth or striate externally, and the outer margin is often ciliate.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference

The flowering glume is awned, strongly 5-nerved, nerves scabrid and ciliate, the lateral nerves being marginal.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference

The palea is narrow, linear-lanceolate, as long as the glume, 3-nerved, rigid, dorsally ciliate, and with hyaline margins.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference