Slender erect or ascending loosely tufted annual. Culms to 40 cm high, ±2-noded, mid-culm smooth, glabrous, finely striate. Leaves crowded at base; sheaths becoming loose from culms in upper part; ligule to 3.5 mm long, obtuse, laciniate; blade mostly flat, linear to 2.5 mm wide. Panicles open, less than twice as long as wide, to 12 cm long, much exserted, slightly drooping or nodding; branches alternate in groups of 1–6, spreading, bearing spikelets towards distal ends of branches, flexuose. Spikelets 1.8–2.5 mm long; pedicel (in upper branches) more than 2 mm long with some to 5 mm long. Glumes subequal or lower very slightly longer, 1.8–2.5 mm long. Lemma ovate, 1.5–1.8 mm long, truncate, awnless, 5-nerved. Palea minute. Anthers 0.4–0.5 mm long.
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