Plant descriptions ²

Trailing annual with lanceolate leaf laminae, and often with aerial roots at the nodes. Culms 10–30 cm. high. Spikelets 3.5–5.7 mm. long, obliquely ovoid. Glumes acute to acuminate, wingless, the inferior almost as long as spikelet. Superior lemma subcoriaceous.

Elevation ²

Up to 500 m.

Reference ²

Flora of West Tropical Africa, Vol 3, Part 2,

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