Annual. Culms rather stiff, decumbent, ascending to 50 cm. Leaf sheaths glabrous or tuberculate-hispid; leaf blades narrowly ovate, 2–8 cm × 5–20 mm, glabrous on both surfaces, base amplexicaul, margins scabrid or pectinate-setose at base, apex sharply acuminate to caudate; ligule 2–3 mm. Racemes very slender, 3–9, often rebranched and hence up to 20, 2–8 cm, suberect when young, stiffly divergent at maturity; rachis internodes 4/5 as long to equaling spikelets, glabrous. Sessile spikelet 3–4.5 mm; lower glume linear-lanceolate, leathery, strongly convex, margins not inflexed, back minutely granular, obscurely 6–7-veined below middle, veins scabrid above middle, apex acute; upper glume with acute apex; awn 5.7–9 mm. Anthers 3, 0.4–1 mm. Pedicelled spikelet absent; pedicel 1–2 mm, glabrous.
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