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Superior glume 7–8(12) mm. long, lanceolate-linear, 7-nerved, the central and submarginal nerves well developed, pale green, appressed hairy, hairs fine, with an irregularly recurved apex.
Inferior glume 0.25–0.75 mm. long, truncate, rarely oblong triangular, nerveless, hyaline, separated from the other scales by a narrow stipe, 1–3 mm. long.
Pedicels 2-nate, 0.5–2.5 mm. long, subterete to triangular, ciliate, not broadened at the apex, which can bear a poorly developed coronula.
Inflorescence composed of (1)2–5 racemes, 5–15 cm. long, mostly in one whorl, sometimes in two whorls, separated by a short common axis.
Leaf laminae 3–8 × 0.2–0.4 cm., linear, flat, subglabrous and scaberulous on both surfaces, scaberulous along the crisped margin.
Culms (5)10–40(50) cm., decumbent or creeping at the base, glabrous, nodes dark and loosely to densely hairy.
Superior lemma c. 3 mm. long, lanceolate, acuminate, pale yellow to greenish or bluish purple.
Rhachis triquetrous, narrowly winged, up to 0.5 mm. broad, smooth with scabrous margins.
Inferior lemma c. 4 mm. long, lanceolate, 5-nerved, appressed hairy, pale green.
Leaf sheaths subglabrous to partly densely hairy, scaberulous.
Ligule 1–2 mm. long, subtruncate, entire.
A loosely caespitose or creeping annual.
Spikelets 8–11(15) mm. long, linear.
