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Tufted annual; culms 25–110 cm. high, slender, geniculately ascending.. Leaf-blades linear, flat, up to 25 cm. long, 7 mm. wide, long-attenuate; leaf-sheaths and both surfaces of the blades papillate-pilose, the hairs spreading.. Inflorescence elliptic to oblong, brush-like, often purplish, 20–30 cm. long, composed of numerous straight slender ascending racemes 4–11 cm. long scattered along the central axis.. Spikelets 2–5(usually 3)-flowered, narrowly elliptic, 1.9–2.5 mm. long, overlapping; glumes subequal, shorter than the lemmas, lower glume lanceolate, 0.7–1.5 mm. long, acute, upper glume narrowly oblong, 0.9–1.6 mm. long, obtuse and mucronate; lemmas elliptic-oblong, 0.8–1.2 mm. long, minutely hairy on the back, bluntly 2-toothed.. Caryopsis broadly elliptic, 0.5 mm. long, brown, obtusely trigonous in cross-section.. Fig. 76, p. 280.
Tufted annual 320-1200 mm high; erect to geniculate; leaves cauline. Leaf blade to 250 x about 7 mm, linear; sheaths and blades with bulbous based hairs; ligule an unfringed membrane, 0.5-3.2 mm long. Inflorescence 200-300 mm long. Spikelet 1.9-2.5 mm long, (2-)3(-5)-flowered; glumes unequal; upper glume mucronate or minutely awned; lemma laterally compressed, keeled, minutely hairy on back, hairs scattered or in vertical rows, apex bifid; anthers 0.2-0.3 mm long, yellow; caryopsis 0.4-0.6 mm long, broadly elliptic.
Spikelets laterally compressed, 2–4-flowered, 1.8–2.3(2.5) mm long, narrowly elliptic, overlapping; glumes unequal, the inferior 0.9–1.2(1.6) mm long, lanceolate, acute, the superior 1–1.7 mm long, narrowly oblong, obtuse and mucronate; lemmas 0.9–1.2 mm long, elliptic-oblong, keeled, minutely pilose on the back, bluntly 2-toothed at the apex.
Slender annual up to 100 cm tall, erect or geniculately ascending; ligule a short membrane; leaf lamina 4–24 cm × 1–8 mm, linear, flat, long-attenuate at the apex; sheaths and both surfaces of the lamina tuberculate-pilose, the hairs spreading.
Annual, tufted, up to 1.2 m high. Leaf blades up to 250 mm long, ± 7 mm wide, linear, leaf sheaths and blades papillate-pilose. Spikelets 1.9-2.5 mm long. Panicle 200-300 mm long; spikelets (2-)3(-5)-flowered.
Inflorescence 9–36 cm long, ± cylindrical, brush-like; racemes numerous, slender, 2–14 cm long, ascending, straight.
Caryopsis 0.4–0.6 mm long, broadly elliptic, obtusely trigonous in section.
Erect or ascending annual about 60 cm. high
Slender racemes
