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Rhizomatous perennial; culms 30–180 cm. high, thick, spongy, decumbent and rooting below.. Leaf-blades 5–40 cm. long, 3–15 mm. wide.. Panicle cylindrical, 4–30 cm. long.. Spikelets plumply elliptic, dorsally compressed, 2.5–4 mm. long, light green, glabrous, obtuse to subacute; lower glume subrotund, ± 1/4 the length of the spikelet; upper glume herbaceous, prominently nerved; lower floret sterile, its palea ± reduced.. Fig. 120.
A grass. This is similar to and probably overlaps with Sacciolepis interrupta. It has rhizomes or underground stems and keeps growing from year to year.
Spikelets dorsally compressed, 2.5–3.5 mm. long, plumply elliptic, light green, glabrous, obtuse to subacute.
Perennial 1.2–1.8 m. high, with thick spongy culms, rooting at the lower nodes
Culms 30–180 cm. high, thick, spongy, decumbent and rooting below.
Inferior glume subrotund, c. 1/4 length of spikelet.
Panicle 4–30 cm. long, cylindrical.
Rhizomatous perennial.
