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Tufted, erect annual to 800 mm high; culm nodes eglandular. Leaf blade to 300 x to 10 mm; glands present on nerves. Inflorescence open, effuse; branches ascending at 45° angles; lowest branches whorled or not whorled; axils long hairy; pedicels 5-25 mm long, slender. Spikelet 3-10 x 1.0-1.5(1.8) mm; rachilla fragile; lemmas and/or paleas breaking up from apex downwards; glumes subequal; lowest glume reaching 1/2 way and more up lemma above, upper glume reaching almost to middle and higher on lemma above; lemma 1.2-1.5 mm long, obtuse to truncate, lateral nerves prominent; palea keels scabrid, margins very wide apart; anthers 3, 0.2-0.3(0.6) mm long; caryopsis subglobose.
Tufted annual; culms 20–80 cm. high, erect.. Leaf-blades flat, up to 30 cm. long and 10 mm. wide; ligule represented by a line of hairs.. Panicle ovate-elliptic, 15–40 cm. long, effuse, the branches ascending at 45°, bearded in the axils, the spikelets on long fine pedicels.. Spikelets 6–22-flowered, linear, 3–10 mm. long and 1–1.5 mm. wide, often purplish, breaking up from the apex, the rhachilla fragile; glumes narrowly ovate to oblong-elliptic, 1–1.5 mm. long, acute to obtuse; lemmas oblong-elliptic, 1–2–1.7 mm. long, obtuse to truncate; palea scabrid on the keels; anthers 3, 0–2 mm. long.. Caryopsis subglobose, 0.5 mm. long.. Fig. 60/6, p. 190.
Erect, tufted annual, up to 800 mm high. Leaf blade up to 300 x 10 mm; ligule a fringe of hairs. Inflorescence an open panicle, branches ascending at 45 degree angles, bearded in axils; pedicels long and slender. Spikelets 3-10 x 1.0-1.5 mm, laterally compressed; rachilla fragile; lemmas and/or paleas breaking up from apex downwards; glumes shorter than spikelet, 1-nerved. Florets many; lemma obtuse to truncate, entire, 3-nerved; palea keels scabrid; anthers 3, 0.2-0.3 mm long. Flowering time Feb.-June. Caryopsis subglobose.
Annual, tufted (erect), up to 0.8 m high. Leaf blades up to 300 mm long, up to 10 mm wide. Spikelets 3-10 mm long, 1.0-1.5 mm wide. Inflorescence open, branches ascending at 45° angles, bearded in axils, pedicels long and slender; spikelet rhachilla fragile, lemmas and/or paleas breaking up from apex downwards; lemma obtuse to truncate; palea keels scabrid; anthers 3, 0.2-0.3 mm long. Caryopsis subglobose.
Caespitose annual; culms up to 50(100) cm tall, usually erect, unbranched or rarely branched, glabrous at the nodes, eglandular; leaf sheaths gland-dotted on the nerves (especially on the midnerve); ligule a line of hairs; leaf laminas 5–20(30) cm × 2–4(6) mm, linear, flat, glabrous, gland-dotted on the nerves beneath.
Panicle 11–30(70) cm long, ovate-elliptic, very effuse, the spikelets evenly distributed on long fine pedicels 5–25 mm long, the primary branches ascending at 45°, pseudowhorled or not, terminating in a fertile spikelet, bearded in the axils, eglandular.
Caryopsis c. 0.5 mm across, subrotund.
Large feathery panicles
Annual, 30–90 cm. high
