Plants cespitose. Culms 2-4 m, glabrous; nodes
glabrous. Sheaths glabrous; auricles absent; ligules 0.6-1.1
mm; blades 50-100 cm long, 5-14 mm wide, glabrous. Peduncles 40-80
cm, glabrous; panicles lanceolate; rachises 30-70 cm, glabrous;
primary branches 6-20 cm, appressed or spreading; rame internodes
1-2 mm, with hairs. Sessile spikelets 4-6 mm long, 0.7-0.9 mm wide, straw-colored.
Callus hairs 4-6 mm, subequal to the spikelets, white; lower glumes
smooth, 4-5-veined; upper glumes 3-veined; lower lemmas 3-5 mm,
1-veined; upper lemmas subequal to the lower lemmas, without veins, entire;
awns 2-5 mm, flat, straight or curved at the base; lodicule veins
not extending into hairlike projections; anthers 3. Pedicels 1-3
mm, pubescent. Pedicellate spikelets similar to the sessile spikelets.
2n = 20.
Saccharum ravennae is native to southern Europe and western Asia. It
is grown as an ornamental in the Flora region, occasionally escaping
and persisting.