Description:
Spikelet Appendages: Pedicel and Rachis segments attached
Spikelet Colour: Reddish brownSpikelet Length: 7 - 10mm
Spikelet shape: Oval with sharp tip, Dorsally compressedSeed Colour: Reddish brown
Seed Length: 4 - 7mm
Seed Sculpture: RoughenedSeed Shape: Ovoid with sharp tip, Dorsally compressed
Spikelets paired, 4–6 mm long, florets 2; lower spikelet sessile, dorsally compressed, upper spikelet pedicellate, narrower than lower spikelet, terminal spikelets in triplets. Glumes 4–6 mm long, with hairs to 0.5 mm long; lower 3-toothed, 7–11-nerved, 2-keeled, keels winged forming small lateral teeth at apex; upper 5-nerved. Sterile lemma 2–5 mm long, acute or 2-lobed, sometimes with an awn to 7 mm long; palea absent or reduced. Bisexual lemma 4–5 mm long, 2-toothed, awnless, 2-nerved, margins with hairs to 0.5 mm long; palea absent or reduced
Caryopsis exposed between gaping lemma and palea at maturity
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