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Perennial; 0.3-0.4 m high; short-lived; sprawling; sometimes stoloniferous. Culm geniculate; rooting at nodes; nodes often with glands below. Leaf blades up to 90 x 4.5 mm; eglandular; leaves mainly forming a dense basal tuft; basal sheaths glabrous or sparsely hairy at extreme base. Flowers: panicle up to 75 (100) mm long; ovate to broadly ovate; open; lowest branches usually not whorled; maybe clustered; axils glabrous or hairy; pedicel ± slender; long glandular patches present; these often sticky; spikelets 4.0-10.5 x 1.5-3.0 mm; narrowly elliptic; greyish green; spikelets evenly distributed. rachilla persistent; lemmas and/or paleae breaking up from base upwards; glumes unequal; keeled; narrowly lanceolate in side view; lower glume up to 1/2 length of lemma above; upper glume 1/2-2/3 length of lemma above; lemmas 1.8-2.4 mm long; keeled; apex subacute to obtuse; lateral nerves indistinct; dark grey to green; apex always dark; palea persistent; same width between keel and margins; margins far apart; keels a narrow line; entire; scaberulous; anthers 3; 0.7-1.3 mm long; caryopsis ellipsoid.
Spikelets 5–10.5 × 1.5–2.5 mm, narrowly elliptic to narrowly oblong, laterally compressed, 7–18-flowered, the lemmas disarticulating from below upwards, the rhachilla persistent; glumes unequal, keeled, glabrous, subacute at the apex, the inferior 1–1.5 mm long, not reaching the middle of the adjacent lemma, narrowly lanceolate in profile, the superior 1.5–2(2.3) mm long, scarcely reaching or just exceeding the middle of the adjacent lemma, lanceolate in profile; lemmas 1.8–2.4 mm long, keeled, ovate or elliptic-ovate in profile, thinly cartilaginous with indistinct lateral nerves, ± appressed to the rhachilla, those in opposite rows scarcely imbricate, the rhachilla ± visible between them, dark greyish-green, glabrous, subacute to obtuse at the apex; palea persistent, glabrous on the flanks, the keels slender, wingless, scaberulous; anthers 3, 0.7–1.3 mm long.
Short-lived perennial, sometimes stoloniferous (geniculate, rooting at nodes), up to 400 mm tall. Leaf blades up to 90 mm long, up to 4.5 mm wide. Plants sprawling; leaves mainly from a dense basal tuft. Spikelets 4-10 mm long, 2-3 mm wide. Inflorescence to 75 mm long; spikelets narrowly elliptic, greyish green, rhachilla persistent, lemmas and/or paleas breaking up from base upwards; lower glume lanceolate, up to half length of lemma directly above and upper glume half to two-thirds the length of lemma above in intact spikelet; lemma with lateral nerves indistinct; palea narrow between keel and margins, margins far apart, keels a narrow line, entire, scabrid; anthers 3, 0.8-1.0 mm long. Caryopsis ellipsoid.
Short-lived perennial without rhizomes, forming sprawling tufts and sometimes ± stoloniferous; culms up to 50 cm tall, mostly ascending, branched or unbranched, glabrous at the nodes, often with a ring of circular glands below the nodes; basal leaf sheaths glabrous, chartaceous, terete or lightly compressed, eglandular, persistent; ligule a line of hairs; leaf laminas 3–9 cm × 1.5–3 mm, linear to broadly linear, flat or involute, glabrous or with scattered tubercle-based hairs, eglandular.
Perennial, tufted (geniculate), up to 0.8 m high. Leaf blades up to 100 mm long, up to 3 mm wide. Plants not sprawling; basal sheaths glabrous; leaves not forming a dense basal tuft. Spikelets 5-15 mm long, 2.2-3.5 mm wide. Inflorescence 80-100 mm long; spikelets greyish yellow, rhachilla persistent, lemmas and/or paleas breaking up from base upwards; lower glume lanceolate; lemma with lateral nerves indistinct; palea keels entire; anthers 3, 0.9-1.2 mm long. Caryopsis ovate.
Panicle 3–10 cm long, ovate to broadly ovate, loose and open, the spikelets evenly distributed on pedicels 2–7(9) mm long, these with a sticky annular gland at the mid-point, the primary branches not in whorls, terminating in a fertile spikelet, glabrous in the axils.
Caryopsis 0.6–0.8 mm long, oblong-elliptic.
