Brachiaria plantaginea Hitchc.

Annual; culms decumbent-spreading, rooting at the nodes, the ascending ends and flowering branches commonly 20-30 cm. high; sheaths compressed, keeled, glabrous, usually ciliate on the margins; ligule ciliate, about 1 mm. long; blades 5-20 cm. long, 8-12 mm. wide, rather lax, rounded at the base, the margins scabrous, sparsely ciliate near the base; racemes usually 3-6, or sometimes 1 or 2 on the branches, 3-10 cm. long, rather distant, ascending to spreading, the rachis 1-1.5 mm. wide; spikelets 4-4.7 mm. long, acute, glabrous; fruit 3-3.5 mm. long, plano-convex, subobtuse, minutely striate and papillose-roughened.