Annual, ascending from a creeping base; culms 4–30 cm. high.. Leaf-blades 1–5 cm. long, 1–4 mm. wide.. Inflorescence of 2–4 (typically 2) digitate racemes; racemes 1–7 cm. long, the spikelets ternate on a ribbon-like winged rhachis with low rounded midrib.. Spikelets narrowly ovate-elliptic, 1.2–1.6 mm. long; lower glume a minute hyaline rim or absent; upper glume as long as the spikelet, 5-nerved (rarely 3-nerved), glabrous; lower lemma as long as the spikelet, 7-nerved, glabrous; fruit ellipsoid, pallid to light brown.
Locally common as a pioneer on sandy to rocky soils in disturbed sites, such as beaches and dunes; at elevations up to 1,350 metres.
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