Annual, up to 400 mm tall, with glandular leaves and pedicels. Leaves linear, villous beneath; ligule a fringe of hairs. Inflorescence an open panicle, 40-100 mm long. Spikelets 3 mm long, glabrous, awnless; glumes ± equal, as long as spikelet, 2-flowered, both bisexual; 1-nerved; lemma glabrous; anthers 1.5-2 mm long.
Annual to 40 cm, with stalked glands on leaves and pedicels. Leaves linear, villous beneath. Spikelets ± 3 mm long, in an open panicle, glumes obtuse, lemmas muticous.