Tufted annual; culms 30–90 cm. high, erect.. Leaf-blades flat, up to 30 cm. long and 2–4 mm. wide; ligule represented by aline of hairs.. Panicle elliptic, 15–25 cm. long, the branches stiff and horizontally spreading, bearded in the axils, the spikelets shortly pedicelled and often loosely grouped about the primary branches.. Spikelets 7–15-flowered, linear, 4–10 mm. long and 1.5–2 mm. wide, often purplish, breaking up from the apex, the rhachilla fragile; glumes lanceolate to narrowly ovate, 1.5–2 mm. long, subacute to obtuse; lemmas broadly oblong-elliptic, 1.6–2 mm. long, broadly truncate; palea scabrid on the keels; anthers 3, 0.5–0.7 mm. long.. Caryopsis subglobose to broadly ellipsoid, 0.5–0.6 mm. long.
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