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Annual with culms 5–40 cm high; nodes hairy. Leaves: ligule a membrane 0.2–0.5 (–1) mm long, margin glabrous, ciliate, fimbriate or fringed; blade linear-lanceolate, 0.5–7 cm long, 0.5–3 mm wide, puberlous, pilose, sometimes glabrous. Inflorescences subdigitate or rarely digitate, with axis 0–3 mm long; racemes 2 or rarely 3, 1.5–6 cm long; raceme internodes 1–2 mm long, with scabrous margins. Spikelets lanceolate-linear, laterally compressed, conduplicate and keeled, 1.8–2.7 mm long, 0.3–0.5 mm deep; lower glume ± flattened, shorter than upper glume, scabrous on keel and sometimes on margin, membranous on each side of midvein, acute; upper glume flattened, scabrid along keel and margins, chartaceous, keel with wing at apex tapers to short or minute mucro. Lower lemma linear, upper lemma trianguar, c. 2.5 mm long, glabrous, bifid to 2-lobed, with awn 7–9 mm long.
