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Loosely tufted annual; culms 30–100 cm. high, erect or ascending.. Leaf-blades flat, up to 20 cm. long, 5 mm. wide.. Panicle ovate, 7–30 cm. long, very loose and open, the spikelets trembling on long fine pedicels, sometimes bearded in the axils.. Spikelets 10–60-flowered, linear, 5–25 mm. long, 1.5–2 mm. wide, the lemmas closely imbricate and covering the rhachilla, purplish, breaking up from the base, the rhachilla persistent; glumes unequal, subacute, the lower narrowly ovate and 0.8–1.2 mm. long, the upper ovate and 1.2–1.5 mm. long; lemmas broadly ovate, 1.5–1.7 mm. long, obtuse (ovate and subacute in side view); palea scabrid on the keels, persistent; anthers 2, 0.3–0.5 mm. long.. Caryopsis subglobose to broadly ovoid, 0.4–0.6 mm. long.. Fig. 62/5, p. 196.
A herb. It is an annual grass that forms loose tufts. It grows 30-100 cm high. The leaf blades are flat and 20 cm long by 5 mm wide. The flower panicles are oval and 7-30 cm long. They are very loose and open. The spikelets tremble on long fine stalks. The spikelets have 10-60 flowers. These are narrow and 5-25 mm long. The seed is about 0.5 mm long.
Loosely caespitose annual; culms up to 100 cm tall, erect or ascending, unbranched or rarely branched, glabrous at the nodes, eglandular; leaf sheaths glabrous or thinly pilose, eglandular; ligule a line of hairs; leaf laminas 4–18 cm × (1)2.5–5.5 mm, linear, flat or sometimes involute, glabrous or thinly pilose, eglandular.
Panicle 14–35(50) cm long, ovate, open and very lax, the spikelets trembling on long fine pedicels up to 20 mm long, the primary branches not in whorls, terminating in a fertile spikelet, glabrous or pilose in the axils, eglandular.
Pretty trembling panicles, and pallid spikelets tinged light brown or purple
Caryopsis 0.5–0.75 mm long, subrotund to broadly ovate.
Loosely tufted annual 60–90 cm. high
