| HABIT : A perennial creeping herb. |
| STEM : Slender, prostrate, widely creeping, forming matted tufts, with slender erect or ascending flowering branches 7.5-30 cm high. |
| LEAVES : 2-10 cm x 1.2-3 mm, narrowly linear or lanceolate, finely acute to pungent, more or less glaucous, soft, smooth, usually conspicuously distichous in the barren shoots and at the base of the stems; sheaths tight, glabrous or hairy, sometimes bearded at the mouth; ligule a very fine ciliate rim. |
| INFLORESCENCE : Spikes 2-6, radiating from the top of a slender peduncle, 2.5-5 cm long, green or purplish; rachis slender, compressed or angled, scaberulous. |
| FLOWERS : Spikelets1.7-2.5 mm long; rachilla produced, very slender, equaling half the length of the spikelet.
Involucral glumes lanceolate, acute to subulate-mucronulate, the lower 1-1.6 mm long, the upper slightly longer; floral glume obliquely oblong to semiovate, about 2 mm long.
Anthers long, 1 mm long.
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| SEEDS : Grains, 1 mm long. |
| FLOWERING AND FRUITING TIME : Throughout the year. |
