Setaria appendiculata Stapf

Densely or loosely tufted perennial 500-1 000 mm high; rhizome oblique; culm nodes sparsely to densely hairy. Leaf blade 70-300 x 3-12 mm, folded at first, later expanded, tapering to a long, setaceous point; lower leaves sagittate at base with thin lobes up to 12 mm long (these easily break off especially in dry material) or absent on same plant, not pseudopetiolate, glabrous. Inflorescence 60-150 x 12-25 mm, linear to lanceolate, contracted, not spike-like; bristles solitary, to 6 mm long, slender, scabrid, green or purple. Spikelet 2.0-2.7 mm long, obtuse to subacute, light green, often tinged purple; lower glume 3-nerved; upper glume 7-9-nerved; lower floret male, lemma smooth, grooved along middle; upper lemma not laterally compressed, not conspicuously gibbous or keeled, smooth to finely transversely rugose at apex becoming more deeply rugose downwards to base; anther 1-2 mm long.