Brachiaria leersioides (Hochst.) Stapf

Annual; culms 10–100 cm. high, ascending.. Leaf-blades linear, 5–20 cm. long, 1–10 mm. wide, setaceously acuminate.. Inflorescence of 3–14 widely spaced racemes, these spreading horizontally or deflexing at maturity, borne on an axis 3–20 cm. long; racemes 1–7 cm. long, slender, secund, bearing mostly paired spikelets on a triquetrous rhachis.. Spikelets narrowly elliptic, 2–3.5 mm. long, glabrous, subacute, without a stipe; lower glume 1/3–1/2 the length of the spikelet, clasping; upper glume separated from the lower by a distinct internode 0.2–0.5 mm. long; upper lemma coarsely rugose, subacute.