Citation: Link, Hort. bot. Berol. 1:229 (1827).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Annual, with stems geniculate or suberect, 15-50 cm high; leaves scaberulous on the upper surface, the blades lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, tapering to an acuminate apex, flat, the margins sometimes slightly undulate, 3-20 cm long; ligule truncate, 1-2 mm long.

Description:
Racemes mostly approximate at the summit of the culm, 2-13, slender, 5-10 cm long; spikelets fight to the base, in 3's at least below, 1.5-1.8 mm long; first glume minute or 0; second glume 3-nerved, puberulent between the nerves, slightly shorter than the first lemma; first (sterile) lemma 5-7-nerved, with the 3 innermost nerves closer together than the lateral ones, puberulent between the nerves; second (fertile) lemma about as long as the sterile lemma, black, shining.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: SL.   W.Aust.; N.T.; QId; N.S.W.   Native to America and Asia. Conservation status: naturalised Flowering time: mostly Jan. — May.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

Biology: Not Applicable

Author: Not yet available