Slender tufted annual; culms 12–50 cm. high, erect or geniculately ascending.. Leaf-blades linear, flat, 3–11 cm. long, 3–5.5 mm. wide, scabrid, ± glabrous to softly pilose, sharply acuminate; ligule 1–2 mm. long.. Inflorescence 5–25 cm. long, narrowly elliptic-oblong, usually fairly compact with ascending racemes, less often the racemes widely spreading; racemes 10–40, 1.5–5 cm. long, stiff.. Spikelets 5–9-flowered, 6.2–8 mm. long, overlapping by about half their length, green or tinged with red; glumes scabrid, as long as or exceeding the florets, the tips caudate, the lower linear-lanceolate, 4.6–7 mm. long, the upper linear-oblong, 5.5–7.2 mm. long; lemmas oblong, 2.5–3.5 mm. long, thinly membranous, sparsely to densely appressed pilose on the back, ciliate along the lateral nerves except towards the tip; awn 0.6–2 mm. long; palea glabrous or capitate-pilose; anthers 0.3–0.5 mm. long.. Caryopsis linear to lanceolate, 1.6–2.1 mm. long.
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