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Lemma 1·5-1·7 mm. long, purplish or greenish, scaberulous towards the apex; callus 0·2-0·3 mm. long, broadly obtuse, shortly barbate; beak or column absent; awn 7-10 mm. long, delicate, scabrous, slightly recurved (the lateral awns absent); articulation absent.
Glumes unequal, glabrous, smooth, or scaberulous towards the apex, keeled, scabrous on the keel, mucronate or shortly awned; the inferior 2-2·5 mm. long, lanceolate, nearly 3-nerved; the superior 2·5-3 mm. long, narrowly lanceolate, 1-nerved.
Panicle usually 4-10 cm. long, usually more than 1/2 as long as the whole plant, lax, effuse, sometimes contracted; axis scabrid; branches capillary, scaberulous, naked below, the lower 2-3-nate.
Leaf-laminae 2-7 (up to 10) cm. long, up to 1 mm. wide, very narrow, involute, scabrous and with long scattered hairs above, glabrous, smooth beneath.
Ligule a short-ciliate rim; auricles pubescent, with some long hairs; collar glabrous or minutely pubescent.
Culms erect, slender, simple or branched at the base, glabrous, smooth 1-2-noded; nodes glabrous, smooth.
Leaf-sheaths glabrous, smooth, or minutely pubescent, striate, keeled.
Spikelets 2·5-3 mm. long, dark purple or greenish tinged with purple.
Annual, 10-30 cm. high, caespitose.
Delicate annual 15–30 cm. high.
