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Spikelets 2.5–3 mm. long, ovate, glabrous, acuminate; inferior glume broadly ovate, 1/2–2/3 as long as the spikelet, 3–5-nerved, acute to acuminate; superior glume broadly ovate, 5–7-nerved, acute; inferior lemma 7–9-nerved, sterile, its palea poorly developed; superior lemma and palea pale and glossy.
An annual grass. It grows 20-100 cm high. The leaf blades are narrow and 8-30 cm long by 5-7 mm wide. The flower panicle is 15-40 cm long. It is branched and spreading.
Panicle 15–40 cm. long, oblong or ovate, much branched, the branches long, fine, flexuous and spreading at maturity, the spikelets borne in pairs at their apex.
Leaf laminae 8–30 cm. long, linear, pilose or hispid, tapering to the apex.
Annual with slender erect culms 20–100 cm. high.
60–90 cm. high
