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Spikelets 1.8–2 mm. long, ovate oblong, glabrous, purple tinged; inferior glume broadly ovate 2/3 the length of the spikelet, 3–5-nerved, acuminate; superior glume ovate, 5–7-nerved, acuminate; inferior lemma similar to the superior glume, sterile, its palea poorly developed; superior lemma and palea dark, glossy.
An annual grass. It forms tufts. It grows 10-40 cm high. The leaf blades are 4-14 cm long by 5-14 mm wide. The flower panicle is oval and 6-20 cm long. It has fine regular spreading branches.
Panicle 4–20 cm. long, ovate or oblong, much branched, the branches fine and spreading or ascending.
Leaf laminae 6–14 cm. long, narrowly lanceolate, acute.
Tufted, pilose annual with culms 10–40 cm. high.
