Ephemerals or annuals, erect or geniculate, tufted, without stolons or rhizomes. Flowering culms 8–40 cm high. Ligule a ciliate membrane, c. 0.5 mm long. Inflorescence branches 8–12, touching for most of length (when flattened) and forming a head-like structure, 0.4–0.6 cm long, 2.5–3.5 mm wide including the spikelets; bare tip 0–2 mm long, 0–50% of total branch length. Spikelets ovate, 2.5–3.5 mm long, 2–3-flowered, with florets closely overlapping, with 1 bisexual floret. Glumes ±equal in width; lower glume 2.3–2.5 mm long, muticous; upper glume oblong, 2.5–3 mm long, with awn 0.3–0.7 mm long. Basal lemma 2–3.2 mm long, muticous, with nerves not apically converging, scaberulous along entire midnerve. Palea flaps ±as wide as body. Anthers 0.8–1 mm long, yellow. Caryopsis oblong or elliptic, obtuse at base, acute to obtuse at apex. Incomplete lemmas unawned.
Halophytic, on saline clays, in low shrubland/herbfield dominated by Halosarcia indica subsp. leiostachya and Lawrencia buchananensis.
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