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Prostrate or erect, tufted perennial 100-350 mm high; stolons present or absent. Leaf blade to 180 x 0.5-1.0 mm, glabrous; sheath mouth with a ring of bristles. Inflorescence a terminal, contracted, sparse panicle, 10-50 mm long, obovate or cylindrical, often partly enclosed in uppermost sheath; a dehiscence node absent below flag-leaf. Spikelet 3.5-5.0 x to 2 mm; florets 5-10, not distichous; glumes shorter than spikelet, acute, glabrous, scabrid; lemma acute to acuminate, awned, awn up to 0.3 mm long; glabrous on back and keel, hairy on margins; hairs slender, acute; palea truncate, glabrous between keels, margin long hair tufts present or absent; anthers 0.3-0.5 mm long.
Plants perennial; innovation buds intravaginal. Culms 15–35 cm high, often decumbent. Leaves glabrous. Inflorescences all terminal, sparsely paniculate, contracted, obovate or cylindrical, 10–50 mm long. Spikelets 3.5–4.5 mm long, with 5–10 florets. Glumes equal to shorter than spikelet, acute, glabrous or scaberulous along the nerves; lower glume 2.5–3.5 mm long. Lemma 2–3.5 mm long, acute to acuminate, awnless, villous, without indumentum between submarginal stripes. Palea linear to lorate, 1.5–2 mm long, glabrous between keels. Anthers 0.3–0.5 mm long. Grain 0.7–1 mm long.
Perennial to 40 cm, often stoloniferous. Leaves linear. Spikelets 3.5-4.5 mm long, in a contracted panicle, 5-10-flowered, florets exserted from glumes, lemmas acute, awnless.
