Annual or short-lived perennial; culms 25–60 cm. long, slender, trailing.. Leaf-blades lanceolate, 3–7 cm. long, 0.5–1 cm. wide, tapering at the base, thin, glabrous or pilose, finely acute.. Panicle oblong, 10–20 cm. long, very sparsely dichotomously branched, the branches spreading and bearing tight clusters of 10–60 spikelets at their tips.. Spikelets elliptic-oblong, 1.3 mm. long, glabrous, yellowish, acute; lower glume ovate, 1/3 the length of the spikelet, 0–1-nerved; upper glume 3-nerved; lower lemma 3–5-nerved, sterile, its palea poorly developed or absent; upper lemma pale, shining.
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