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Superior glume as long as the spikelet, oblong, 5-nerved, appressed hairy, hairs white to purplish, fine, papillose, with a circinately involute apex.
Superior lemma somewhat shorter than the spikelet, oblong, apiculate, pale yellowish green to bluish green, adaxially slightly gibbous.
Inferior lemma somewhat shorter than the spikelet, oblong with recurved margins, 7-nerved, appressed hairy.
Rhachis triquetrous, asymmetrically winged, undulating, up to 0.8 mm. broad, smooth with smooth margins.
Inflorescence composed of 2–(3–4) racemes, 3–7 cm. long, one shortly, the other long pedicelled.
Pedicels 2-nate, 0.5–3 mm. long, triangular, smooth, asymmetrically broadened at the apex.
Culms 10–20 cm., erect from a creeping base, glabrous, nodes dark, glabrous.
Inferior glume very short, truncate, nerveless, hyaline.
Ligule 0.3 mm. long, rim-like, shortly ciliate.
A slender creeping annual, mat-forming.
Leaf sheaths loosely to densely hairy.
Spikelets 1.8–2.1 mm. long, oblong.
