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Slender annual; stems 5–20 cm long and 0.3–0.6 mm thick, angular, hairy or almost glabrous. Leaf-sheaths pale, densely hairy to almost glabrous with long hairs at the openings; blades usually less than 15 cm long and frequently only 1–2 cm long and 0.2–0.5 mm wide, flat or canaliculate, usually densely hairy. Inflorescence a simple or compound lax anthela of one sessile spikelet subtended by 2–many stalked spikelets or new groups of sessile and stalked spikelets, rarely all spikelets almost sessile. Involucral bracts usually shorter than the inflorescence. Spikelets 4–15 x 2–3 mm, ovate to elongate. Glumes 2–2.5 mm long, light to dark reddish brown, but often with paler midrib and margin, minutely hairy both on surface and margin. Nutlet 0.7–0.8 mm long, pale, grey or light brown, obovate, obtusely triangular with 7–10 rounded transverse wrinkles on each of the 3 sides; angles smooth; swollen style-base usually not persistent on the mature nutlet.