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Annuals. Culms slender, tufted, erect or geniculately ascending, simple or branched, 15-60 cm long; nodes glabrous, lower nodes often rooting. Leaf blades broadly linear or linear-lanceolate, thin, flaccid, 5-20 cm long, 4-10 mm wide, indistinctly scabrid and softly hairy on both the surfaces, margin scaberulous, apex acuminate; leaf sheaths compressed, usually loose, margin ciliate, bearded at mouth; ligule a ciliate rim. Panicle contracted, narrowly lanceolate to pyramidal, 10-17 cm long, more or less loose, interrupted or lobed, branched at least below, branches distant below, crowded above, becoming smaller and smaller towards top. Rachis scaberulous or puberulous. Spikelets densely crowded, usually solitary, ovoid or elliptic, subacute, 1.5-2 mm long, 2-flowered. Involucral bristles 3-6 (8), rigid, 3-10 mm long, antrorsely barbed. Glumes unequal; lower glume broadly ovate, 1/3- 1/2 as long as spikelet, 3-5-nerved; upper glume 1/2-2/3 the length of spikelet, 5-nerved. Lower floret: Barren. Its lemma (lower lemma) elliptic-oblong, as long as the spikelet, 5-nerved, muticous. Palea (lower palea) shorter, ovoid, acute, 2-keeled, 3-nerved, hyaline. Upper floret: Bisexual. Its lemma (upper lemma) broadly ovate, ca. 2 mm long, acute or more or less apiculate, crustaceous, transversely rugose. Palea (upper palea) slightly shorter than upper lemma, ca. 1.5 mm long, crustaceous, ovate, acute, finely rugose. Stamens 3; anthers ca. 0.8 mm long. Stigmas 2, plumose.

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