annual or subperennial (?), tufted; culms geniculate, simple, or with leafy branches from the lower nodes about 1 ft. long, glabrous, smooth, usually with a ring of depressed glands below each node, more or less viscous, 3-noded, internodes exserted; leaves scantily beset with tubercle-based spreading hairs, or the upper quite glabrous; sheaths striate, smooth, bearded at the mouth; ligule a fringe of short hairs; blades linear, tapering to a fine point, 2–3 in. by 1–1 1/2 lin., soft, smooth on the back, scabrid on the upper side and along the margins; panicle erect, ovoid to oblong, 4–6 in. long, open or contracted; axis filiform, smooth; lower branches in whorls of 5–7, upper alternate or irregularly approximate, obliquely erect or more or less spreading, finely filiform, flexuous, glabrous below, lower loosely divided from 1/2– 3/4 in. above the base; branchlets contracted or more or less spreading, scabrid, the lowest again divided and up to 1/2 in. long; pedicels very short; spikelets linear to linear-oblong, 1 1/2–2 1/2 lin. by 3/4–1 lin., crowded or rather scattered, olive-green, 3–11-flowered; glumes unequal, deciduous, oblong-lanceolate, subacute, delicate, 1-nerved, keel scaberulous, margins minutely serrulate, lower scarcely 1/2 lin. long, upper 2/3– 3/4 lin. long; rhachilla subpersistent, smooth or subscaberulous; valves oblong in profile, very obtuse, truncate or subemarginate, 2/3 lin. long or slightly longer, smooth or almost so, side-nerves fine, close to the margin; pales equal to the valves, keels scaberulous above; anthers 1/4– 3/8 lin. long; grain ellipsoid, 1/4– 3/8 lin. by 1/5– 1/6 lin., pallid, translucent. null
