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Spikelets 1.7–5 × 0.7–1 mm, linear, lightly laterally compressed, 6–28-flowered, the florets disarticulating from below upwards, the rhachilla persistent; glumes unequal, reaching to between 1/4 and 1/3 the way along the adjacent lemmas, dorsally rounded or lightly keeled, lanceolate in profile, glabrous, subacute at the apex, the inferior 0.3–0.5 mm long, the superior 0.6–0.8 mm long; lemmas 0.7–1 mm long, lightly keeled, narrowly ovate in profile, thinly membranous with faint lateral nerves, at first appressed to the rhachilla, those in opposite rows imbricate and concealing the rhachilla, at length diverging and exposing the rhachilla, greyish-green, glabrous, obtuse to subacute at the apex; palea deciduous with or soon after the lemma, glabrous on the flanks, the keels slender, wingless, smooth and glabrous; anthers 3, 0.1–0.2 mm long.
Annual, loosely tufted (erect), up to 0.6 m high. Leaf blades 30-200 mm long, 1-3 mm wide. Spikelets 1.7-5.0 mm long, 0.7-1.0 mm wide. Inflorescence delicate, loose, branches and pedicels slender and flexible, axils of branches not bearded, spikelets distant; spikelets linear to oblong, lemmas on same side of rhachilla overlapping lemma above and hardly diminishing in length towards apex of spikelet, rhachilla persistent, lemmas and/or paleas breaking up from base upwards; lower glume up to a third the length of lemma above in intact spikelet, weakly keeled; lemma broadly ovate with lateral veins not visible, lowest lemma 0.7-1.0 mm long; palea keels usually smooth; anthers 3, 0.1-0.2 mm long. Caryopsis ellipsoid.
Loosely tufted annual; culms 10–60 cm. high, erect or ascending, slender.. Leaf-blades flat, 3–20 cm. long, 1–3 mm. wide.. Panicle elliptic, 6–25 cm. long, delicate and open, glabrous in the axils, the branches often loosely whorled.. Spikelets 6–18-flowered, linear, 1.7–5 mm. long, 0.7–1 mm. wide, greyish green, breaking up from the base, the rhachilla persistent; glumes narrowly ovate, hyaline, unequal, the lower 0.3–0.5 mm. long, the upper 0.6–0.8 mm.; lemmas broadly ovate, 0.7–1 mm. long; palea falling soon after the lemma, the keels smooth; anthers 3, 0.1–0.2 mm. long.. Caryopsis broadly ellipsoid, 0.4–0.5 mm. long.
An annual grass. It forms loose tufts. It grows 60 cm high. The stalks are slender. The leaf blade is flat and 3-20 cm long by 1-3 mm wide. The flower panicle is 6-25 cm long and delicate and open. The branches are in loose rings. The spikelets have 6-18 flower. The seeds are 0.5 mm long.
Loosely or densely caespitose annual; culms up to 60 cm tall, erect or ascending, branched or unbranched, glabrous at the nodes, eglandular; leaf sheaths glabrous; ligule a line of hairs; leaf laminas 3–20 cm × 1–3 mm, linear, flat or involute, glabrous, eglandular.
Panicle 6–25 cm long, elliptic, loose and open, very delicate, the spikelets evenly distributed on pedicels 2.5–7 mm long, the primary branches whorled (often loosely so, especially above), terminating in a fertile spikelet, glabrous in the axils, eglandular.
Caryopsis 0.4–0.5 mm long, broadly elliptic.
