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Laxly tufted annual; culms 8–40 cm. high, erect or ascending.. Leaf-blades flat, 2–10 cm. long and 1–4 mm. wide.. Panicle ovate to linear (in the smaller panicles), 3–15 cm. long, not whorled, the spikelets untidily condensed about the primary branches; branchlets and pedicels gland-dotted, the latter very short (1–2 mm. long).. Spikelets 6–15-flowered, linear, 2–7 mm. long and 0.7–1 mm. wide, light green tinged with purple, the florets ascending close to the rhachilla, breaking up from the base, the rhachilla persistent; glumes hyaline, unequal, the lower a little nerveless scale 0.3–0.5 mm. long, the upper ovate and 0.6–0.8 mm. long; lemmas ovate-elliptic, 1–1.5 mm. long, obtuse; palea falling shortly (or sometimes rather tardily) after the lemma, the keels scaberulous; anthers 3, 0–2 mm. long.. Caryopsis ellipsoid, 0.5–0.7 mm. long.
Spikelets 2–7 × 0.7–1 mm, linear, laterally compressed, 6–15-flowered, the florets disarticulating from below upwards, the rhachilla persistent; glumes unequal, the inferior minute, 0.3–0.5 mm long, oblong, obtuse, the superior 0.6–0.8 mm long, reaching from just beyond the base to just short of the middle of the adjacent lemma, keeled, narrowly ovate in profile, glabrous, acute at the apex; lemmas 1–1.5 mm long, keeled, ovate-elliptic in profile, thinly membranous with distinct lateral nerves, ± appressed to the rhachilla, those in opposite rows imbricate and ± concealing the rhachilla, light green tinged with purple, thinly scabrid on the keel, obtuse at the apex; palea deciduous shortly (or rather tardily) after the lemma, glabrous on the flanks, the keels slender, wingless, scaberulous; anthers 3, c. 0.2 mm long.
Annual; up to 0.5 m high; tufted; erect to decumbent. Leaf blades 20-100 x 1-4 mm; leaf margins without glands. Flowers: panicle open or contracted with branches spreading or appressed to main axis; rigid; gland dotted; spikelets irregularly and densely condensed along primary branches; pedicels stout and gland dotted spikelets 2-7 x 0.7-1.0 mm; spikelets linear to oblong; lemmas on same side of rachilla distinctly overlapping lemma above; rachilla subpersistent; lemmas and/or paleae breaking up from base upwards; lower glume usually minute; up to 1/3 length of lemma above; not keeled to lightly keeled; apex obtuse; lemmas ovate-elliptic; 1.0-1.5 mm long; palea keels smooth to scabrid; anthers 3; 0.3 mm long; caryopsis ellipsoid.
Tufted annual, up to 500 mm high, erect to decumbent. Leaf blade 20-100 x 1-4 mm; ligule a fringe of hairs. Inflorescence a panicle, branches spreading or appressed to main axis, rigid; spikelets irregularly and densely condensed along primary branches; pedicels stout. Spikelets 2-7 x 0.7-1.0 mm, linear to oblong, laterally compressed, lemmas on same side of rachilla distinctly overlapping lemma above; rachilla subpersistent, lemmas and/or paleas breaking up from base upwards; glumes shorter than spikelet, 1-nerved. Florets many; lemma ovate-elliptic, entire, 1.0-1.5 mm long, 3-nerved; palea keels smooth to scabrid; anthers 3, 0.3 mm long. Flowering time Jan.-May. Caryopsis ellipsoid.
Annual, tufted (erect to decumbent), up to 500 mm tall. Leaf blades 20-100 mm long, 1-4 mm wide. Spikelets 2-7 mm long, 0.7-1.0 mm wide. Inflorescence heavy, branches spreading or appressed to main axis, rigid, spikelets irregularly and densely condensed along primary branches, pedicels stout; spikelets linear to oblong, lemmas on same side of rhachilla distinctly overlapping lemma above, rachilla subpersistent, lemmas and/or paleas breaking up from base upwards; lower glume up to a third the length of lemma above in intact spikelet; lemma ovate-elliptic, 1.0-1.5 mm long; palea keels smooth to scabrid; anthers 3, 0.3 mm long. Caryopsis ellipsoid.
Loosely tufted annual, up to 0.5 m tall. Leaves linear; ligule a fringe of hairs. Inflorescence a panicle, lowest branches not whorled. Spikelets on stout pedicels, irregularly and densely arranged on primary branches, 2-7 x 0.7-1 mm, many-flowered, green and red to deep red, rhachilla ± persistent, awnless; glumes unequal, shorter than spikelet; lateral nerves of lemma distinct, glandular; anthers 0.3 mm long.
Panicle 3–15 cm long, ovate (the smaller ones tending towards linear), the spikelets untidily condensed about the primary branches on pedicels 1–2 mm long, the primary branches not in whorls, terminating in a fertile spikelet, glabrous in the axils, the branchlets and pedicels dotted with crateriform glands.
Loosely caespitose annual; culms up to 40 cm tall, erect or ascending, branched or unbranched, glabrous at the nodes, eglandular; leaf sheaths glabrous; ligule a line of hairs; leaf laminas 2–10 cm × 1–4 mm, linear, flat, glabrous, eglandular.
Annual to 5 cm. Leaves linear. Spikelets in a rigid, sparsely branched panicle, irregularly and densely condensed on primary branches, 2-7 x ± 1 mm.
Caryopsis 0.5–0.7 mm long, elliptic.
