Erect annual in small tufts; culms 10-45 cm. high, rarely more, slender, freely branching from all the nodes; blades mostly less than 10 cm. long, 1-2 mm. wide, flat or becoming involute, tapering to a fine point, scabrous on the upper surface and bearing scattered long white hairs; panicles 5-20 cm. long, finally long-exserted, the short, stiff, rather distant, ascending to spreading branches floriferous to the base, bearing scattered long fine hairs; glumes narrow, acuminate, subequal, 5-7 mm. long, glabrous; lemma gradually narrowed into a curved or flexuous awn, the lemma and awn together 15-35 mm. long, the division indistinct, the lateral awns wanting.
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