Loosely tufted annual; culms 38–120 cm. high, slender, erect or ascending.. Leaf-blades 5–16 cm. long, 4–9.5 mm. wide, soft, finely pointed; ligule 0.75–1.8 mm. long, ciliate; leaf-sheaths scattered pilose.. Inflorescence 13–30 cm. long, open, composed of 10–32 widely spreading linear spikes 2.5–7 cm. long spaced along the central axis; lower spikelets often replaced by short lateral tardily deciduous branchlets up to 13 mm. long, especially on spikes towards the base of the inflorescence.. Spikelets 2–(3)-flowered, wedge-shaped, 3.2–5 mm. long, closely overlapping on the triquetrous un-winged rhachis; glumes linear-lanceolate, with acuminate-aristate tips, 3.1–5 mm. long, membranous; lemmas narrowly ovate, 1.3–1.6 mm. long, sericeous along the lateral nerves and in a broad band around the central nerve, 2-lobed; palea sericeous on either side of the keels.. Caryopsis 0.8–1 mm. long.
Home