Description:
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Loosely caespitose annual; culms up to 60 cm tall, erect, often branched below; leaf sheaths chartaceous, glabrous on the back, ciliate on the margins, terete; leaf laminas 1–6 cm × 2–6 mm, flat, hispidulous above, glabrous beneath, pectinate-ciliate on the margins with tubercle-based hairs, acute at the apex.Panicle 4.5–16 cm long, narrowly elliptic; branches in a succession of whorls, smooth, with elongated viscid glandular patches, the spikelets 6–30 per branch, evenly distributed in the distal part.Spikelets 0.8–1.4 mm long, reddish-brown; inferior glume 2/5–3/5 the length of the spikelet, lanceolate, nerveless, glabrous, acute to acuminate at the apex; superior glume as long as the spikelet, ovate to ovate-elliptic, 1-nerved, smooth or hispidulous, acute at the apex; lemma a little shorter than the spikelet, ovate; anthers 3, 0.2–0.5 mm long.Grain rotund or subrotund, 0.4–0.7 mm across, slightly laterally compressed. |