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Widely spreading perennial; culms with short internodes, freely branching, decumbent-spreading and rooting at the nodes, the erect or ascending branches 20-70 cm. long; sheaths glabrous to densely papillose-hispid, the margins ciliate, the lower ones usually much shorter than the internodes, the upper frequently overlapping; blades 4-10 cm., rarely 15 cm., long, 1-2 cm. wide, acuminate, usually asymmetric, rather thin, glabrous or sometimes pubescent, the margins scabrous; inflorescence 5-15 cm. long, of 3-7 stiffly ascending, rather distant racemes 1-2 cm., rarely 3 cm., long, the rachis more or less papillose-hispid, es-pecially at the base; spikelets 3-3.5 mm. long, glabrous to sparsely pilose; glumes about equal, 2 mm. long; awns glabrous, usually purplish, that of the first glume 5-10 cm. long, that of the second about 2 mm. long; sterile lemma acuminate; fruit 3 mm. long, elliptic, acute, minutely striate.
Prostrate perennial, sometimes climbing in undergrowth; culm 150-800 mm long. Leaf blade up to 130 x 4-20 mm; ligule a fringed membrane. Inflorescence of elongated racemes with 6-20 spikelets, usually scattered and distant on a slender central axis. Spikelet 2-4 mm long; glumes ± equal, similar, shorter than spikelet, 3-5-nerved, with smooth sticky awns; lower glume with longest awn, 3-14 mm long. Florets 2; lower floret sterile or rarely male; upper floret bisexual, lemma smooth, shining, margins inrolled and clasping palea, awnless; anther 1.4-2.5 mm long. Flowering time Jan.-June. (rarely at other times.
Perennial with rambling culms 15–100 cm. long or more.. Leaf-blades narrowly lanceolate to narrowly ovate, 1–13 cm. long, 4–20 mm. wide.. Inflorescence 3–15 cm. long, comprising 3–9 racemes each 0.5–3 cm. long with glabrous to sparsely pilose rhachis and ± contiguous spikelets, or the upper reduced to fascicles; sometimes all the racemes very short, but then the awns also short (less than 7 mm.).. Spikelets lanceolate, 2–4 mm. long, glabrous to sparsely pubescent; glumes with smooth viscid awns, the longest in each pair of spikelets 3–14 mm. long.
Prostrate perennial, sometimes climbing in undergrowth; culm 150800 mm long. Leaf blade to 130 x 4-20 mm. Inflorescence 60180 mm long; racemes elongated, up 300 mm long; 6-20 spikelets. Spikelet 2-4 mm long; glumes with smooth sticky awns, longest awn 3-14 mm long; lower lemma awn 0.5-1.2 mm long; anther 1.4-2.5 mm long.
Prostrate perennial (sometimes climbing in undergrowth), up to 0.8 m high. Leaf blades up to 130 mm long, 4-20 mm wide. Spikelets 2-4 mm long. Inflorescence of racemes, with 6-20 spikelets; glumes with smooth sticky awns 3-14 mm long.
Racemes with a distinct rhachis up to 3 cm. long, the spikelet pairs contiguous; rarely the racemes all ± cuneate, but then awns also short.
Spikelets 2–4 mm. long, glabrous to sparsely pubescent; awns smooth and sticky, the longest in each pair of spikelets 3–14 mm.
Rather variable, particularly in the size, shape and hairiness of its leaf-blades, and also in panicle characters.
Trailing perennial, stems to 80 cm. Leaves lanceolate to ovate. Spikelets 6-20 in racemes, awns smooth, sticky.
Rambling perennial with lanceolate to narrowly ovate leaf laminae.
Straggling, often with long aerial roots from the nodes
Culms 15–100 cm. long or more.
Forest shade.
