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Weak perennial; or annual; up to 0.6 m high; tufted; erect or with some culms geniculate. Leaf blades up to 250 x 2.5 mm. Flowers: panicle open; branches spreading; pedicels slender; spikelets up to 5 x 1 mm; spikelets oblong to linear; lemmas on same side of rachilla either not or just overlapping one above; rachilla persistent; lemmas and/or paleae breaking up from base upwards; lower glume < 1/3 length of lemma above in intact spikelet; weakly keeled; lemmas 1.0-1.8 mm long; broadly ovate-oblong in side view; apex broadly obtuse to rounded; palea keels scabrid to glabrous; anthers 3; 0.2-0.3 mm long; caryopsis oblong; shallowly grooved on back.
Tufted, weak perennial or annual, up to 600 mm high; erect or with some culms geniculate. Leaf blade up to 250 x 2.5 mm; ligule a fringe of hairs. Inflorescence an open panicle, branches spreading; pedicels slender. Spikelets up to 5 x 1 mm, oblong to linear, laterally compressed; lemmas on same side of rachilla either not or just overlapping the one above, rachilla persistent, lemmas and/or paleas breaking up from base upwards; glumes shorter than spikelet, weakly keeled, 1-nerved. Florets many; lemma 1.0-1.8 mm long, entire, 3-nerved; palea keels scabrid to glabrous; anthers 3, 0.2-0.3 mm long. Flowering time Jan.-Apr. Caryopsis oblong.
Weak perennial or annual, tufted (erect or with some culms geniculate), up to 0.6 m tall. Leaf blades up to 250 mm long, up to 2.5 mm wide. Spikelets to 5 mm long, up to 1 mm wide. Inflorescence open, branches spreading, pedicels slender; spikelets oblong to linear, lemmas on same side of rhachilla either not or just overlapping the one above, rhachilla persistent, lemmas and/or paleas breaking up from base upwards; lower glume less than a third the length of lemma above in intact spikelet, weakly keeled; lemma 1.0-1.8 mm long; palea keels scabrid to glabrous; anthers 3.0,2-0.3 mm long. Caryopsis oblong.
