Annual; culms 25–100 cm. long, slender, decumbent or scrambling.. Leaf-blades ovate-lanceolate, 5–10 cm. long, 5–15 mm. wide, tapering at the base, thin, cross-veins present, scaberulous or sparsely pilose, acuminate.. Inflorescence composed of slender racemes scattered along an axis 12–20 cm. long; racemes 2–5 cm. long, bearing paired spikelets.. Spikelets ovate-elliptic, 2.2–2.5 mm. long, covered with minute spicules, blunt or acute; lower glume ovate, 2/3–3/4 the length of the spikelet, clasping at the base, 3-nerved, apiculate; upper glume faintly 3–7-nerved, obtuse; lower lemma hyaline, faintly 3–5-nerved, blunt, sterile, its palea poorly developed or absent; upper lemma pale, shining.
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