Perennial though often appearing like an annual; culms 15-75 cm. long, slender, rather delicate, decumbent at the base and rooting at the lower nodes, the branches ascending or erect, the nodes pubescent; sheaths much shorter than the internodes, more or less pilose, the margins ciliate; blades thin, ovate-lanceolate, asymmetrical, subcordate, 1.5-5 cm. long, 8-18 mm. wide, pilose or nearly gla-brous; panicles 3-14 cm. long, the racemes 5-15 mm. long, rather stiffly spreading or reflexed, rather distant or approximate; spikelets 2 mm. long, turgid, pilose, the hairs longer near the margins; first glume acute, about one-third the length of the spikelet, the sterile lemma with two conspicuous crateriform glands; fruit 1.3 mm. long.
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