Annual; culms erect or decumbent at the base, 10-40 cm. or sometimes as much as 65 cm. high; sheaths glabrous, shorter than the internodes; blades flat, attenuate, mostly 6-15 cm. long, rarely longer, 2-4 mm. wide, papillose-pilose, especially on the upper surface, or nearly glabrous; panicles 8-15 cm. long, erect, the somewhat distant solitary branches stiffly ascending, spikelet bearing nearly to the base, densely pilose in the axils; spikelets 6-10 mm. long, 8-to 28-flowered, short-pedicellate, somewhat spreading, usually tinged with red or purple; glumes acuminate, as long as the lowest floret; lemmas 2-2.5 mm. long, broad at the base, rather abruptly narrowed above the middle to an acute or acuminate tip.
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