Japan Flora: Culms tufted, 60-100 cm. long; leaf-blades rather flat, 20-40 cm. long, 3-8 mm. wide, usually white-pilose; ligules short, truncate; sheaths with spreading white hairs; racemes 3-7, on a short axis 8-12 cm. long, the joints villous with purple-brown hairs; spikelets broadly lanceolate, 5-6 mm. long, rather acute, sparsely hairy; awn 12-17 mm. long. Sept-Nov.
Honshu (Tokaido Distr. and westw.), Shikoku, Kyushu. Ryukyus, India, and China.