Home
Spikelets 1.6–2 mm long, yellowish or brownish-green; inferior glume a minute oblong scale up to 1/5 the length of the spikelet, nerveless, glabrous, obtuse at the apex; superior glume 1/2–2/3 the length of the spikelet, ovate or oblong, 1-nerved, glabrous, with a subulate, awn-like apex; lemma as long as the spikelet, ovate or lanceolate, smooth or scaberulous, contracted above into a subulate awn-like apex (the palea only as long as the expanded part of the lemma); anthers 3, 0.2–0.3 mm long.
Loosely tufted annual 110-360 mm high. Leaf blade 20-250 x 1-5 mm, flat. Inflorescence linear, more than 5 x longer than wide, branches not whorled. Spikelet 1.7-2.0 mm long; glumes unequal; lower glume a tiny oblong hyaline scale, 0.2-0.3 mm long; upper glume 1/3-2/3 as long as spikelet, abruptly acuminate, usually prolonged into an awn-point; lemma narrow, needle-like, notably longer (to 1.5 times) than rest of spikelet, smooth to scaberulous, apex acuminate to subulate; anther 0.2 mm long.
Loosely caespitose annual; culms up to 60 cm tall, erect or ascending, often branched below; leaf sheaths chartaceous, glabrous, compressed and lightly keeled; leaf laminas 4–25 cm × (1)2–5 mm, flat or involute, glabrous, smooth or scaberulous on the margins, tapering to a fine point.
Annual, loosely tufted, up to 360 mm tall. Leaf blades 20-250 mm long, 1-5 mm wide. Spikelets 1.7-2.0 mm long. Panicle linear, more than 5 times longer than wide, not whorled; lemma narrow and needle-like, notably longer (to 1.5 times) than rest of spikelet.
Panicle (4)9–30 cm long, linear; branches not in whorls, smooth or scabrid, eglandular, divergent and strictly racemose, 0.5–2.5 cm long, the spikelets along the whole length.
Grain 0.6–0.7 mm long, obovate, oblong in section.
Small annual about 30 cm. high
Cultivated land and pathsides.
