Tufted, shortly creeping perennial; culms 6-25cm high, usually decumbent at the base. Leaf-blades usually flat, sometimes folded, 1-7cm long, 2-3mm wide, flaccid, abruptly tapering to a rather stout tip, scabrid on the margins; ligule blunt, 1-1.5mm long. Panicle pyramidal, 2-3cm long, loose; branches solitary or in pairs, the lower widely spreading, smooth. Spikelets 4-6-flowered, ovate, 3.5-5mm long, often suffused with purple; glumes unequal, the lower oblong, 1.5-1.7 mm long, 1-nerved, the upper elliptic, 2-2.5mm long, 3-nerved; lemmas elliptic or oblong-ovate in side-view, 2.5-3.5mm long, obtuse, ciliate on the keel and marginal nerves, without any wool at the base; palea shorter than the lemma, ciliate all along the keels; anthers (1.2-)1.6-2(-2.5)mm long.