== Description ==
*Ascending, free-tillering annual grass up to 80 cm tall, with delicate kneed stems.
*Leaves alternate, simple; leaf sheath glabrous, smooth, striate; ligule membranous, broad, c. 2 mm long; blade linear to lanceolate, gradually tapering to an acute apex, 5–15 cm × 0.3–0.9 cm, glabrous.
*Inflorescence a terminal digitate panicle of 2–5 slender, spike-like primary branches up to 15 cm long.