Delicate annual; culms 8-20 cm. long, freely branching, erect or usually decumbent-spreading; sheaths pilose or nearly glabrous; ligule 0.5 mm. long; blades 1-3 cm. long, mostly less than 1 mm. wide, flat, pilose, especially on the upper surface; panicles 4-10 cm. long, the branches ascending or appressed, rather distant, solitary, closely flowered to the base, the branchlets appressed; spikelets short-pedicellate, appressed; body of glumes about 0.5 mm. long, abruptly nar-rowed to a short awn; lemma 2 mm. long, glabrous, the callus minutely pubescent, the awn very slender, mostly 10-20 mm. long.
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