Perennial; culms up to 150 cm. long, wiry, trailing or scrambling, branched, many-noded, pallid.. Leaf-blades narrowly lanceolate, 4.5–9 cm. long, 5–7 mm. wide, cordate at the base, flat, stiff and spreading, glabrous and somewhat glaucous, antrorsely scabrid on the margins, acuminate.. Panicle ovate, 9–14 cm. long, moderately branched, the branches stiff and spreading, sparsely hirsute on the axis, otherwise glabrous.. Spikelets oblong, 2.8–3 mm. long, glabrous; lower glume ovate, 1/3 the length of the spikelet, 3-nerved; upper glume ovate-oblong, 5-nerved, acute; lower lemma ovate, 5-nerved, male, its palea well developed; upper lemma tessellate, pale.
Home