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Leaf laminae 4–8 × 0.5–1.2 cm., linear-lanceolate, flat, sometimes scaberulous on both surfaces, with scattered bulbous based bristles, scabrous along the crisped margin.
Inferior lemma as long as the spikelet, oblong-ovate with recurved margins, equidistantly 7-nerved, glabrous or rarely minutely pubescent, pale green or purplish tinged.
Superior glume c.4/5 the spikelet, oblong-ovate, 3(5)-nerved, glabrous or rarely minutely pubescent, pale green, sometimes purplish tinged.
Inferior glume c.1/4 of the spikelet, regularly triangular to rounded triangular, nerveless, glabrous, hyaline or purplish.
Inflorescence composed of 6–12 racemes, 4–9 cm. long, ascendent-patent, solitary along a well developed common axis.
Pedicels 2-nate, 1–3 mm. long, triangular to compressed, scabrous, not or scarcely broadened at the apex.
Superior lemma as long as the spikelet, oblong-ovate, apiculate, pale to bluish green, inflated.
Rhachis triquetrous, scarcely winged, up to 0.4 mm. broad, smooth, with scabrous margins.
Culms 20–40 cm., erect from a creeping or decumbent base, glabrous, nodes dark, glabrous.
A slender creeping perennial with culms up to about 30 cm. high.
Leaf sheaths loosely to densely hairy from minute tubercles.
A loosely caespitose perennial on a short, slender rhizome.
Spikelets 1.8–2.1 mm. long, oblong-ovate, inflated.
Ligule 1–2 mm. long, obtuse to truncate.
A slender creeping grass.
