Zeugites P.Browne

Very slender, decumbent-spreading perennial; culms 15-50 cm. long, wiry, usually rather freely branching, purple, shining,-with a sulcus on one side; sheaths usually much shorter than the internodes, sparsely pilose or glabrous; blades 1.5-3.5 cm. long, 6-16 mm. wide, ovate, acute, thin, glabrous or very sparsely pilose, the petioles 6-10 mm. long; panicles 6-9 cm. long, the slender more or less flexuous, few-flowered branches ascending or spreading, the lower ones often re-flexed; spikelets 5-6 mm. long; glumes equal, 1.5-2 mm. long, about half as long as the fertile floret; staminate florets 1 or 2, about 3 mm. long.