Annual. Culms tufted, erect, 30–50 cm tall, 4–5-noded. Leaf sheaths papillose-pilose; leaf blades linear or linear-lanceolate, 6–20 × 0.3–0.6 cm, thinly pilose, margins thickened, smooth, apex acuminate; ligule brown, 2–3 mm. Inflorescence paniculate, open, 12–18 cm; branches capillary, 5–10 cm, spreading; spikelets toward the panicle periphery; pedicels long, capillary, scaberulous. Spikelets lanceolate-elliptic, 3.3–4 mm, acute; lower glume ca. 0.5 mm, veinless, obtuse or emarginate; upper glume 3/4–4/5 as long as spikelet, 3–5-veined, appressed silky pubescent between lateral veins and along margins; lower lemma as long as spikelet, 7-veined, margins and intervein spaces appressed silky pubescent; upper lemma yellowish, apiculate. Anthers purplish, ca. 2 mm. Fl. and fr. Jul.
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