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Loosely tufted annual 150-700 mm high; culm often weak and ascending, solitary or branched. Leaf blade 40-180(-250) x 4-22 mm; ligule a fringe of hairs. Inflorescence panicle-like, broadly ovate, branches rigid, simple or compound; racemes 7-15, 20-100 mm long; rachis triquetrous; spikelets mostly paired, distant; pedicels of unequal lengths, the longer one up to 15 mm long. Spikelet 2.0-3.5 mm long, supported on a short stipe; lower glume 1/3-1/2 as long as spikelet, separated from upper lemma by an internode, 5-nerved; upper lemma subacute to acute, finely rugose; anther 1.2-1.5 mm long.
Annual, loosely tufted (culms often weak and ascending, solitary or branched), up to 0.7 m high. Leaf blades 40-180(-250) mm long, 4-22 mm wide. Spikelets 2.0-3.4 mm long. Panicle broadly ovate, branches rigid, simple or compound; racemes 7-15, 20-100 mm long, pedicels unequal, the longer one up to 15 mm long; upper lemma finely rugose.
Inflorescence of 7–15 racemes, these 2–10 cm. long, often compound, bearing mostly paired distant spikelets spreading from a triquetrous rhachis and imitating a panicle; pedicels, or some of them, longer than spikelet, up to 15 mm. long.
A wild millet grass. It is similar to Brachiaria ramosa. It grows each year from seed. It is a loosely tufted annual grass. It grows 15-70 cm high. The leaf blades are narrow and 4-25 cm long by 4-22 mm wide.
The inflorescence, with its distant spikelets and long pedicels, simulates a panicle, and the plant is commonly mistaken for a species of Panicum
Spikelets like B. ramosa.
Annual up to 45 cm. high
Loosely tufted annual.
Culms 15–70 cm. high.
