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Loosely tufted annual; culms 6–80 cm. high, erect or ascending, usually with a ring of elongated glands just below the node.. Leaf-blades flat, 4–15 cm. long, 2–5 mm. wide; sheaths pilose with tubercle-based hairs, rarely glabrous, with or without glandular pits.. Panicle lanceolate to ovate, 8–25 cm. long, the lowest branches forming a whorl, usually glabrous in the axils.. Spikelets 5–12-flowered, linear-oblong, 3–5 mm. long, 1 mm. wide, grey-green, commencing to break up from the base, the rhachilla persistent below but fragile above; glumes ovate, 0.6–1.5 mm. long, hyaline to membranous, greyish, the lower 1/2-2/3 as long as the lowest lemma; lemmas obovate-elliptic, 1.1–1.5 mm. long, with obscure lateral nerves, broadly rounded to truncate; palea minutely scaberulous on the keels, persistent; anthers 3, 0.6–0.9 mm. long.. Caryopsis ellipsoid, 0.5–0.6 mm. long.
Loosely tufted annual to 800 mm high, usually erect; leaf sheaths usually densely pilose with bulbous-based hairs; culm nodes glandular below. Leaf blade 40-150 x 2-5 mm; eglandular. Inflorescence open; lowest branches whorled; pedicels eglandular; spikelets distant from one another, evenly spaced on branches. Spikelet 3-5(8) x 1.0-1.5 mm; rachilla persistent in lower part, fragile above; lemmas and/or paleas breaking up from base upwards; glumes subequal; lower glume reaching up from middle and more up lemma above; upper glume up to ±1/3 of lemma above; lemma 1.0-1.5 mm long, obovate-elliptic, truncate to broadly rounded, lateral nerves indistinct; palea persistent, keels wingless, minutely scaberulous, margins wide apart, narrow between keel and margin; anthers 3, 0.55-0.90 mm long; caryopsis ellipsoid.
Annual; up to 0.8 m high; loosely tufted; usually erect. Leaf blades 40-150 x 2-5 mm; leaf sheaths densely pilose with bulbous-based hairs. Flowers: panicle with lowest branches whorled; with rachilla persistent in lower part; fragile above; lemmas and/or paleae breaking up from base upwards; spikelets 3-5 x 1.0-1.5 mm; lowest lemma obovate-elliptic; truncate to broadly rounded; 1.0-1.5 mm long; palea keels minutely scaberulous; palea margins wide apart for entire length; anthers 3; 0.6-0.9 mm long; caryopsis ellipsoid.
Annual, loosely tufted (usually erect), up to 0.8 m high. Leaf blades 40-150 mm long, 2-5 mm wide. Leaf sheaths densely pilose with bulbous-based hairs. Inflorescence with lowest branches whorled; Spikelets 3-5 mm long, 1.0-1.5 mm wide, with rhachilla persistent in lower part, fragile above, lemmas and/or paleas breaking up from base upwards; lowest lemma obovate-elliptic, truncate to broadly rounded, 1.0-1.5 mm long; palea keels minutely scaberulous; anthers 3, 0.6-0.9 mm long; caryposis ellipsoid.
Caespitose annual; culms up to 80 cm tall, erect or ascending, branched or unbranched, glabrous at the nodes, with a ring of elongated glands just below the nodes; leaf sheaths usually pilose with tubercle-based hairs, rarely glabrous, with or without glandular pits above; ligule a line of hairs; leaf laminas 4–15 cm × 2–5 mm, linear, flat, thinly pilose or glabrous, eglandular.
Caryopsis 0.5–0.6 mm long, elliptic.
