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Spikelets 5.5–7 × 1.7–2.5 mm, oblong to elliptic, laterally compressed, 10–12-flowered, the lemmas disarticulating from below upwards, the rhachilla persistent or becoming fragile above; glumes subequal, 1.5–2 mm long, reaching to about 3/5 the way along the adjacent lemmas, keeled, lanceolate to narrowly ovate in profile, usually with one or two crateriform glands on the keel, acute at the apex; lemmas 2–2.5 mm long, keeled, narrowly ovate to elliptic in profile, chartaceous with distinct lateral nerves, diverging from the rhachilla at less than 45°, those in opposite rows scarcely imbricate, the rhachilla ± visible between them, pallid to leaden-grey, often with a crateriform gland on the keel above, glabrous, acute and sometimes also mucronate at the apex; palea persistent, glabrous on the flanks, the keels slender, wingless, scabrid; anthers 3, 0.2–0.3 mm long.
Annual; up to 0.5 m high; tufted; geniculate or procumbent. Leaf blades up to 200 x 3.5 mm; basal sheath glabrous or hairy; but not with woolly hairs; leaf margins and/or midrib with glands. Flowers: panicle with side branches usually appressed to main axis; though lower branches sometimes spreading; with many spikelets densely congested and appressed to branches; spikelets ± 7 x (1.7-)2.0-2.5 mm; spikelets oblong to elliptic; rachilla persistent; sometimes becoming fragile in upper part; lemmas and/or paleae breaking up from base upwards; glumes shorter than lemmas directly above in intact spikelet; lemmas acute (1.7-)2.0-2.5 mm long; with a minute mucro present or absent; palea keels entire; scabrid; anthers 3; 0.2-0.3 mm long; caryopsis oblong.
Annual, tufted (geniculate or procumbent), up to 500 mm tall. Leaf blades up to 200 mm long, up to 3.5 mm wide. Basal sheath glabrous or hairy, but not with woolly hairs. Spikelets ± 7 mm long, (1.7-)2.0-2.5 mm wide. Inflorescence with side branches usually appressed to main axis, though lower branches sometimes spreading, with many spikelets densely congested and appressed to branches; spikelets oblong to elliptic, rhachilla persistent, sometimes becoming fragile in upper part, lemmas and/or paleas breaking up from base upwards; glumes shorter than lemmas directly above in intact spikelet; lemmas acute (l,7-)2.0-2.5 mm long, with a minute mucro present or absent; palea keels entire, scabrid; anthers 3.0,2-0.3 mm long. Caryopsis oblong.
Tufted annual, up to 500 mm high; geniculate or procumbent. Leaf blade up to 200 x 3.5 mm; ligule a fringe of hairs. Inflorescence a panicle; side branches usually appressed to main axis, lower branches sometimes spreading; many spikelets densely congested and appressed to branches. Spikelets ± 7 x (1.7-)2.0-2.5 mm, oblong to elliptic, laterally compressed; rachilla persistent, sometimes becoming fragile in upper part, lemmas and/or paleas breaking up from base upwards; glumes shorter than spikelet, entire. Florets many; lemmas acute (1.7-)2.0-2.5 mm long, entire, 3-nerved, a minute mucro present or absent; palea keels entire, scabrid; anthers 3, 0.2-0.3 mm long. Flowering time Oct.-June. Caryopsis oblong.
Loosely caespitose annual; culms up to 50 cm tall, procumbent or geniculately ascending, less often erect, mostly branched, glabrous at the nodes, eglandular or with a glandular ring below the nodes; leaf sheaths glabrous or thinly pilose, with glandular pits along the midnerve; ligule a line of hairs; leaf laminas 2–20 cm × 1.5–3.5 mm, linear, flat or involute, glabrous or thinly pilose, with crateriform glands along the margins and a line of glandular pits along the midnerve below.
Tufted annual, up to 0.5 m tall, often procumbent or geniculate. Leaves linear, flat or involute; ligule a fringe of hairs. Inflorescence a contracted panicle with branches adpressed to main axis, lowermost branches not whorled. Spikelets dense, 5-7 x 1.7-2.5 mm, green to grey to straw-coloured, rhachilla persistent but fragile above, awnless; glumes subequal, shorter than spikelet, lateral nerves of lemma distinct; anthers 0.2-0.3 mm long.
Panicle 3–10 cm long, oblong to elliptic-oblong, densely contracted with the primary branches appressed to the axis (sometimes the lowermost spreading), the spikelets condensed about the branches on pedicels 0.5–1.5 mm long, these with crateriform glands, the primary branches not in whorls, terminating in a fertile spikelet, glabrous in the axils.
Caryopsis 0.6–0.7 mm long, oblong.
