Annual; culms slender, densely tufted, 4-17 cm. high, ascending or spreading, branching from the lower and middle nodes; sheaths mostly longer than the inter-nodes, sparsely to rather densely papillose-pilose; ligule about 0.2 mm. long; blades 1.5-6.5 cm. long, 1-2 mm. wide, flat or loosely folded, flexuous, subattenuate, mostly conspicuously papillose-pilose with long fine hairs; racemes 1-4, stiffly spreading or reflexed, 6-26 cm. long, the rachis strongly zigzag, angular, scabrous on the angles, naked for a short space at the base; spikelets about 0.8 mm. long, solitary, oblong-elliptic, the second glume and sterile lemma thin with raised, somewhat thickened margins; fruit about as large as the spikelet, smooth and shining.
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