Japan Flora: Culms few, erect, slender, gla­brous, 10-20 cm. long, from a long-creeping, branching base; leaf-blades membranous, green, flat, linear, 4-7 cm. long, 3-5 mm. wide, short-acuminate, glabrous except for a few long, spreading hairs on margins near base; ligules hyaline, 1.5-2 mm. long, glabrous; sheaths smooth, glabrous, rather short; racemes 3-6, short, erect, pale green, 5-8 cm. long, slender, the rachis scabrous on margins; spikelets broadly lanceolate, acute, long-pubescent on both sides, 2.2-25 mm. long; first glume minute, deltoid, the second linear-lanceolate, 1/2-2/3 as long as the spikelet, pubescent; sterile lemma broadly lan­ceolate, acute, 7-nerved, the midrib somewhat distant from the others, glabrous on the margins, long-pubescent on both faces; fertile lemma very slightly shorter than the sterile one, lanceo­late, short-acuminate, whitish. Sept-Nov. Grassy places near seashores.

Kyushu (s' distr.); rather rare. Ryukyus, Formosa, and s. China.