Annual; culms 5-35 cm. high, in small dense tufts, erect or somewhat geniculate at the base, rather freely branching from the lower nodes; leaves almost all crowded toward the base; sheaths keeled at least toward the summit, short but longer than the short internodes, or the uppermost elongate; ligule truncate, less than 1 mm. long; blades 2-5 cm. long, 2-3.5 mm. wide, flat, acuminate, sparsely to rather densely pilose or hirsute; racemes 1-4, 1-5 cm. long, stiffly ascending, racemose on a short axis, the rachis wingless; spikelets 2 mm. long, in pairs, one sessile, the other pedicellate; first glume obsolete; second glume and sterile lemma nearly equal, about as long as the fruit, villous with golden hairs which extend in a tuft beyond the tip of the spikelet.
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