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Annual; culms up to 0.5 m. high, erect or more often geniculately ascending, often rooting at the nodes.. Leaf-blades flat, 2–10 cm. long, 3–5 mm. wide, obtuse at the apex; sheaths keeled.. Inflorescence of 2–7(–13) paired, digitate or subdigitate, loose or spreading, often purplish spikes 4–10 cm. long.. Spikelets 2-flowered, 1–2-awned; lower glume 1.5–3 mm. long; upper glume 2.3–3.5 mm. long; lowest lemma narrowly elliptic in side view, 2.5–3.2 mm. long, pallid, scabrid on the margins, keel and flanks, the awn 11–27 mm. long, often purplish; callus rounded, ciliate; 2nd lemma a small scabrid scale 0.1–1 mm. long borne upon an internode 2–3 mm. long, with or without an awn up to 8 mm. long, embraced by the lowest lemma and similar in shape.
Usually annual, sometimes perennial, 150-500 mm high, tufted; basal sheaths keeled. Leaf blade 20-100 x 3-5 mm, tip rounded and blunt, sparsely hairy. Inflorescence digitate to subdigitate, racemes 4-9, 40-100 mm long, delicate, narrow, usually purple and horizontally spreading at first and straw coloured and curving inwards later; spikelets overlap for most of their lengths. Spikelet 2-3 mm long, 2-flowered; lower glume 1.5-2.0 mm long; upper glume 2.0-2.5 mm long; lowest lemma 2.5-3.2 mm long, tips acuminate to acute, narrowly elliptic, glabrous and scabrid, awn 11-27 mm long, callus rounded; second lemma reduced to a scale 0.1-1.0 mm long, awnless or with awn up to 8 mm long; anther 0.4-0.5 mm long.
Usually annual, sometimes perennial, 150-500 mm high, tufted; basal sheaths keeled. Leaf blade blunt, sparsely hairy, apex rounded; ligule a short, fringed membrane or fringe of hairs. Inflorescence digitate to subdigitate, of 4-9 racemes, delicate, narrow, usually purple, horizontally spreading at first, straw-coloured and curving inwards later. Spikelets 2-3 mm long, laterally compressed; glumes unequal, membranous, keeled, 1-nerved. Florets 2; lowest lemma narrowly elliptic, glabrous but scabrid, apex acuminate to acute, awn 11-27 mm long, callus rounded; second lemma reduced to a scale 0.1-1.0 mm long, awnless or with awn up to 8 mm long; anther 0.4-0.5 mm long. Flowering time Sept.-May.
Annual; occasionally perennial; up to 0.5 m high; tufted. Leaf blades 20-100 x 3-5 mm; leaves with rounded and blunt apices. Flowers: inflorescence digitate; spikes 4-9; delicate; narrow; 40-100 mm long; horizontally spreading; spikelets 2-3 mm long; lower glume 1.5-3.0 mm long; lowest lemma 2.5-3.2 mm long; glabrous; apices acuminate to acute; awns 11-27 mm long.
Spikelets 2-flowered, 1–2-awned; inferior glume 1.3–1.4 mm long; superior glume 2–2.4 mm long; floret callus rounded; fertile lemma 2.4–2.8 mm long, narrowly elliptic in profile, pallid, scabrid on the margins, keel and flanks, the awn 11–27 mm long; 2nd lemma 0.1–1 mm long, borne upon an internode 2–3 mm long, awnless or with an awn up to 8 mm long.
Usually annual or perennial, tufted, up to 500 mm tall. Leaf blades 20-100 mm long, 3-5 mm wide, leaves with rounded and blunt tips. Spikelets 2-3 mm long. Spikes 4-9, delicate, narrow, 40-100 mm long, horizontally spreading; lower glume 1.5-3.0 mm long; lowest lemma 2.5-3.2 mm long, tips acuminate to acute, awns 11-27 mm long.
Annual up to 45 cm tall, erect or geniculately ascending, often rooting from the nodes; leaf sheaths keeled; leaf laminas 3–11 cm × 3–5 mm, abruptly obtuse at the apex.
Inflorescence of 3–12 digitate or subdigitate racemes 1.5–7 cm long.
Stoloniferous perennial up to 30 cm. high
Inflorescence tinged with pink
