Panicum nervatum Stapf

Perennial, scrambling from a knotty base; culms 30–130 cm. high, 1 mm. diameter at the base, slender, rather weak, simple or branching upwards, geniculately ascending or erect.. Leaves cauline; blades narrowly lanceolate to linear, 5–15(–20) cm. long, 1.5–4(–5) mm. wide, straight at the base, ascending or spreading, flat, rarely inrolled, membranous or herbaceous, glabrous or pilose with tubercle-based hairs, acute or acuminate.. Panicle ovate-oblong, 6–18 cm. long, moderately branched.. Spikelets ovate to orbicular, (1.2–)1.5–2.3(–2.5) mm. long, gold and purple tinged or pale green, glabrous or pubescent; lower glume broadly ovate, 2/3–3/4 the length of the spikelet, 3-nerved, acute; upper glume 5-nerved, acute; lower lemma 5-nerved, male, its palea well developed; upper lemma and palea verruculose.