Mainly annual or rarely perennial; up to 1.2 m high; tufted. Leaf blades 40-200(-270) x 2-11 (13) mm. Flowers: panicle slightly contracted; spikelets 2.2-4.0(-5.0) x 2-3 mm; slightly laterally compressed; usually densely hairy; internode between glumes 0.1-0.5(-0.6) mm long; lower glume (0.3-)0.6-1.3(-1.5) mm long; upper glume and lower lemma gibbous; rarely tapering into an elongated beak; mostly shortly awned; up to 3 mm long.
Mainly annual or perennial (rarely), tufted, up to 1.2 m high. Leaf blades 40-200(-270) mm long, 2-11(-13) mm wide. Spikelets 2-4(-5) mm long, 2-3 mm wide, always hairy; internode between glumes 0,l-0.5(-0.6) mm long; lower glume (0.3-)0.6-1.3(-1.5) mm long; upper glume and lower lemma gibbous, rarely tapering into an elongated beak, mostly shortly awned, up to 3 mm long.