Annual 50-600 mm high; basal sheaths not fibrous with age; culms solitary or loosely tufted. Leaf blade 20-150(-250) x 2-8 mm, soft; sheath with well-developed pointed auricles, up to 8 mm long, often surrounding culm. Inflorescence 15-25 mm wide, usually green; rachis disarticulating readily into a cluster of 3 at maturity. Central spikelet sessile or subsessile, pedicel shorter than 0.6 mm; glume margins distinctly hairy, basal parts widened; lemma ± smooth, awn to 30 mm long; palea almost glabrous; anthers 0.7-1.4 mm long. Lateral spikelets shorter than or as long as central spikelet; prolongation of rachilla slender, green; at least one glume basally widened, 0.3-0.7 mm wide, margins long hairy, especially the inner glume; palea almost glabrous; anthers 0.8-1.4 mm long.
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