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Tufted annual, 200-500 mm high; culms decumbent or creeping, sometimes mat-forming, geniculate or ascending, rooting at lower nodes. Leaf blade 20-135 x 2-10 mm; ligule an unfringed membrane. Inflorescence digitate or subdigitate, of 3-8 racemes; rachis triquetrous, winged, glabrous with scaberulous margins; pedicels triangular, scaberulous; spikelets abaxial, paired. Spikelets 1.6-2.3 mm long, dorsiventrally compressed; lower glume absent, if present, then a minute obscure scale < 0.2 mm long; upper glume shorter to as long as spikelet, 3-nerved; internode absent. Florets 2; lower floret sterile, lemma lanceolate, as long as spikelet, 7-nerved, nerves usually smooth, pubescent; upper floret bisexual, lemma ± as long as spikelet, yellow, brown to greyish, margins flat and covering most of palea. Flowering time Nov.-Apr.
Tufted annual 200-500 mm high; sometimes mat-forming; culms decumbent or creeping, geniculate, rooting at lower nodes. Leaf blade 20-135 x 2-10 mm. Inflorescence digitate or subdigitate, of 3-10 racemes 40-120 mm long; rachis triquetrous, winged, margins scabrid; pedicel triangular, scaberulous; spikelets paired. Spikelet 1.6-2.8 mm long; lower glume absent, or a minute obscure rim less than 0.2 mm long; upper glume shorter to as long as spikelet, narrow, 3-nerved; internode absent; lower lemma as long as spikelet, adpressed hairy, 5-7-nerved, nerves smooth; upper lemma slightly shorter to as long as spikelet, exposed, yellow, brown to greyish; anthers 0.6-0.8 mm long.
Annual, tufted, up to 500 mm tall. Leaf blades 20-135 mm long, 2-10 mm wide. Culms decumbent at base, geniculate and ascending, rooting from lower nodes. Spikelets 1.6-2.3 mm long, 0.8 mm wide. Racemes 3-8, digitate or subdigitate, 40-100 mm long; lower glume absent, or if present then a minute rim, obscure.
Annual, tufted, up to 500 mm tall. Leaf blades 20-135 mm long, 2-10 mm wide. Culms decumbent at base, geniculate and ascending, rooting from lower nodes. Spikelets 1.6-2.3 mm long, 0.8 mm wide. Racemes 3-8, digitate or subdigitate, 40-100 mm long; lower glume absent, or if present then a minute rim, obscure.
An annual grass. The stems are elbowed and reach 1 m high. It is creeping and can form mats. The stems are 10-50 cm long. The seeds are about 0.8 mm long.
Superior lemma as long as to slightly shorter than the spikelet, oblong-lanceolate, acute, pale yellow to reddish brown, sometimes bluish grey.
Inferior lemma as long as the spikelet, oblonglanceolate, 5–7-nerved, nerves smooth, mostly (but not always) equidistant, appressed hairy.
Superior glume 1/2–2/3 of the spikelet, oblong triangular, 3-nerved, appressed hairy, hairs fine, smooth, acute, hyaline.
Leaf laminae (2)5–12 × 0.3–0.6(0.8) cm., linear, flat, scaberulous on both surfaces, scaberulous along the margin.
Inflorescence composed of 2–10 racemes, (3)7–12 cm. long, in one or two superposed whorls of 2–5 racemes each.
Pedicels 2-nate, 0.5–2 mm. long, triangular, scaberulous, slightly broadened at the apex.
Rhachis triquetrous, winged, up to 0.7 mm. broad, smooth with scabrous margins.
Inferior glume shorter than 0.2 mm., poorly developed or even absent.
Culms 10–50 cm., glabrous, nodes dark and (sub)glabrous.
A creeping or decumbent, sometimes mat-forming annual.
Leaf sheaths scaberulous, sometimes loosely hairy.
Spikelets 2–2.8 mm. long, oblong to lanceolate.
Ligule 1–2 mm. long, truncate, erose.
