Culms 5-20 cm, glabrous or puberulent. Sheaths puberulent or glabrous; blades strongly involute, often arcuate, puberulent or glabrous on both surfaces. Primary panicles usually barely exserted above the dense basal tuft of blades. Spikelets 1.3-1.5 mm, puberulent. 2n = unknown.

Dichanthelium chamaelonche subsp. breve grows only in peninsular Florida.