Slender, tufted annual or perennial 300-750 mm high; erect to geniculate. Leaf blade 40-120 x 6-18 mm, lanceolate-oblong to oblong, acute; ligule unfringed membrane, 6-8 mm long. Inflorescence 150-450 mm long. Spikelet 1.9-2.8 mm long, laterally compressed; 1-flowered; glumes ± equal, as long as spikelet, acuminate; upper glume without mucro or awn; lemma keeled, entire, acute, minutely hairy on nerves; anthers 0.2-0.4 mm long, dark purple to pale olive green; caryopsis 1.0-1.2 mm long, narrowly elliptic.
Spikelets laterally compressed, 1-flowered, 1.8–2 mm long, narrowly fusiform, overlapping; glumes subequal, as long as the spikelet, broadly linear, sharply acuminate; lemma 1.4–1.6 mm long, narrowly elliptic, keeled, minutely pilose on the nerves, entire, acute.
Delicate annual or short-lived perennial up to 75 cm tall, erect or geniculately ascending; ligule a short membrane; leaf lamina 4–10 cm × 7–15 mm, lanceolate-oblong, broad, flat, thin and flaccid, smooth on both sides, acute.
A delicate annual grass. It grows 75 cm tall. The leaf blade is 4-10 cm long by 7-15 mm wide. They are sword shaped, flat and thin. They are smooth on both sides. The flower shoots are 5-30 cm long. They are narrowly oblong.
Slender annual, tufted, up to 0.61 m high. Leaf blades 40-120 mm long, 6-18 mm wide, leaf blades lanceolate-oblong to oblong. Spikelets 1.9-2.8 mm long. Panicle 150-450 mm long; spikelets 1-flowered.
Inflorescence 5–30 cm long, oblong to narrowly oblong; racemes numerous, very slender, 4–6 cm long, ascending, straight or slightly arching.
Caryopsis 1–1.2 mm long, narrowly elliptic, trigonous in section, deeply sulcate on the hilar side.
Erect or trailing annual, 30–60 cm. high