Panicum delicatulum Fig. & De Not.

Annual; culms 10–30(–50) cm. high, delicate, ascending.. Leaf-blades narrowly-ovate, 3–6 cm. long, 5–12 mm. wide, abruptly tapering at the base, thin, sparsely pilose, acuminate.. Panicle ovate, 3–8 cm. long, densely or sparsely branched, the branches very fine.. Spikelets ovate, 2–2.5 (–3) mm. long, green or purple tinged, scaberulous or pilose, acuminate; lower glume a hyaline nerveless scale, 1/4 the length of the spikelet, blunt; upper glume as long as the spikelet, ovate, obscurely 3-nerved, acuminate with a subulate tip; lower lemma ovate, faintly 3-nerved, sterile, its palea moderately developed; upper lemma pale, shining.