Japan Flora: More slender than the preceding; culms 50-100 cm. long from ascending base; leaf-blades 10-20 cm. long, 3-6 mm. wide, flat, thin, with spreading, long, whitish hairs callose at base; sheaths sparingly long-pilose; ligules hyaline, truncate, 05-1 mm. long; panicles at length exserted, 20-30 cm. long, the branches spreading, slender, 5-10 cm. long; spikelets about 15 mm. long, rather flat; glumes unequal, 1-nerved, mem­branous, broadly lanceolate, 0.7-1 mm. long; lemmas ovate, 0.6-0.8 mm. long, white puberulent; anthers about 0.1 mm. long, elliptic; caryopsis ovoid, obsoletely rugulose, about 0.5 mm. long.

Kyushu; rather rare. Ryukyus, China, For­mosa, and tropical Asia.