annual, tufted; culms geniculate, ascending, branched, 1/2 ft. long, glabrous, smooth, about 3-noded, internodes shortly (or the uppermost long) exserted; sheaths loose or the uppermost tumid, striate, eglandular, scantily bearded at the mouth, otherwise glabrous; ligule a fringe of short hairs; blades linear, tapering to an acute point, 1–2 in. by 1–1 1/2 lin., flat or involute, glabrous, smooth, eglandular; panicle oblong, dense or almost spike-like, 1 1/2–2 in. long; axis terete, smooth; branches subsolitary, irregularly approximate, short or reduced to subsessile fascicles of spikelets; pedicels very short, all the divisions filiform, smooth or almost so; spikelets ovate-oblong to linear, 2–3 1/2 lin. by 1–1 1/4 lin. long, light green, 5–15-flowered; rhachilla persistent; glumes somewhat unequal, ovate-oblong, acute, upper 3/4 lin. long, 1-nerved, keels scabrid, margins minutely serrulate; valves oblong in profile, acute or minutely mucronate, 1 lin. long, side-nerves prominent, strong; pales persistent, somewhat shorter than the valves, keels scabrid; anthers ellipsoid, 1/8– 1/7 lin. long; grain oblong, 3/8 lin. by 1/6 lin., reddish-brown. null
