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Annual or short-lived perennial, usually with slender, many-noded stolons. Culms ascending, leafy, 10–40 cm tall. Leaf sheaths pubescent or glabrous; leaf blades broadly linear, 2–5 × 0.2–0.4 cm, glabrous or papillose-pilose at base, apex acute; ligule 1–1.5 mm. Inflorescence digitate; racemes 2–3, arching at maturity, 2–5 cm; spikelets ternate; rachis ribbonlike, winged, 0.5–0.8 mm broad, midrib low and rounded; pedicels terete, smooth, with discoid tips. Spikelets elliptic, 1.2–1.5 mm, apex acuminate, hairs verrucose; lower glume absent; upper glume as long as spikelet, 5-veined, densely appressed-pubescent; lower lemma as long as spikelet, 7-veined, glabrous between middle and lateral veins, otherwise pubescent; upper lemma yellowish brown or pale gray, apex acuminate. Anthers 0.6–0.8 mm. Fl. and fr. Apr–Oct. 2n = 18.
Loosely tufted annual or short-lived perennial 100-350 mm high; mat forming, stoloniferous or with short rhizomes; culm rooting at lower nodes. Leaf blade 18-70 x 1.6-4.5 mm. Inflorescence digitate, of 2(-4) racemes 30-70 mm long; rachis with low rounded midrib, broadly winged, glabrous, margins scaberulous; pedicels glabrous; spikelets 3 per cluster and these tend to bend outwards. Spikelet 1.2-1.8(2.2) mm long, hairy; lower glume absent or reduced to short truncate membrane; upper glume as long as spikelet, 3-5-nerved, hairy between nerves; internode absent; lower lemma as long as spikelet, 5-7 nerved, covered with hairs 0.2 mm long; upper lemma as long as spikelet, yellow or grey to purplish, mostly concealed; anthers 0.8-1.2 mm long.
Perennial (short-lived) or annual, mat-forming and stoloniferous or tufted (loosely), up to 350 mm tall. Leaf blades 18-70 mm long, 1.6-4.5 mm wide. Culms rooting from lower nodes. Spikelets 1.2-1.6 mm long, 0.6 mm wide. Racemes 2 (or 3), digitate, 30-70 mm long, spikelets in pairs or threes and tending to bend outwards; rhachis winged with low rounded midrib; upper glume and lower lemma as long as spikelet and covered with hairs 0.2 mm long; female-fertile (upper) lemma grey to purplish.
Leaf laminae (1)5–10(15) × 0.2×0.6 cm., linear, flat, smooth or minutely scaberulous, subglabrous or with scattered bulbous based bristles on both surfaces, scabrous along the margin.
A wild millet grass. It is a tufted annual grass. It can have both underground stems or rhizomes and runners or stolons. It can keep growing for some years. It grows 30-60 cm high.
Superior glume as long as the spikelet, ovateoblong, 3–5-nerved, appressed hairy, hairs fine, slightly undulating, whitish or purplish tinged, with rough, papillose walls.
Inflorescence composed of (1)2(4) racemes, (1.5)2.5–10(17) cm. long, one subsessile, the other pedicellate on a very short common axis, erect to patent.
A loosely caespitose annual or short lived perennial, sometimes with a short rhizome or matforming with creeping runners, rooting at the nodes.
Inferior lemma as long as the spikelet, ovate-oblong with narrow, recurved margins, (5)7-nerved, appressed hairy.
Culms 20–50(70) cm., erect, ascending or creeping, glabrous, nodes dark and glabrous.
Spikelets (1.2)1.5–2.0(2.2) mm. long, ovate-oblong, broadest in or above the middle.
Superior lemma as long as the spikelet, oblong, acute, pale yellow to bluish green.
Creeping stoloniferous annual or short-lived perennial up to about 30 cm. high
Pedicels 3-nate, 0.5–2.5 mm. long, subterete, smooth, broadened at the apex.
Rhachis broadly winged, up to 1.2 mm. broad, smooth with scabrous margins.
Inferior glume obsolete, truncate, nerveless, hyaline.
Ligule 0.5–1.5 mm. long, truncate, entire.
Leaf sheaths glabrous to loosely hairy.
