Plant descriptions ²

Loosely tufted annual; culms 10–60 cm. high, erect or ascending, slender. Leaf-blades flat, 3–20 cm. long, 1–3 mm. wide. Panicle elliptic, 6–25 cm. long, delicate and open, glabrous in the axils, the branches often loosely whorled. Spikelets 6–18-flowered, linear, 1.7–5 mm. long, 0.7–1 mm. wide, greyish green, breaking up from the base, the rhachilla persistent; glumes narrowly ovate, hyaline, unequal, the lower 0.3–0.5 mm. long, the upper 0.6–0.8 mm.; lemmas broadly ovate, 0.7–1 mm. long; palea falling soon after the lemma, the keels smooth; anthers 3, 0.1–0.2 mm. long. Caryopsis broadly ellipsoid, 0.4–0.5 mm. long.

Elevation ²

Up to 1 400 m.

Reference ²

W. D. CLAYTON, S. M. PHILLIPS AND S. A. RENVOIZE. 1974. Gramineae (Part 2).Flora of Tropical East Africa. 177 p,

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1. (c) Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/images/10/104620-3.jpg
2. (c) Romer Rabarijaona, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)

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