Japan Flora: Culms long-decumbent and rooting at base, freely branched, slender, 50-80 cm. long, green, glabrous; leaf-blades flat, broadly linear, 5-8 cm. long, 4-7 mm. wide, sparsely pilose above, glabrous beneath, nar­rowed at base; ligules ovate-deltoid, obtuse, reddish brown, hyaline, glabrous, 2-3 mm. long; sheaths glabrous, often with a few long hairs near apex; inflorescence exserted, the axis 3 cm. long; racemes 4-7, ascending, slender, pale green with a brown hue, 7-10 cm. long, rather densely flowered; rachis joints subterete, 3-4 mm. long, reddish brown ciliate, slighdy thickened above; pedicels about half as long as the joint; spikelets lanceolate, about 3.5 mm. long, those with pedicels barely smaller than the sessile ones; first glume with a distinct groove between the ciliate keels, second glume awn-pointed; fertile lemma with a delicate awn about 2 cm. long. Oct­- Nov. Woods in low mountains.

Kyushu (Yakushima and Tanegashima). Ryukyus, Formosa, s. China, Malaysia, and India.