Introduced from Northeastern Africa. Blades rolled in bud , folded or flat, glabrous to sparsely short-hairy, midveins pronounced on underside . Auricles lacking . Collar margins densely ciliate with long white hairs . Small rhizome and stolon fragments readily generate new plants.
Rhizome fragments can generate new plants.
Below each spikelet or small cluster of spikelets are long, flexible bristles that disperse with spikelets . Spikelets lanceolate, consist of a lower glume-like sterile floret and an upper fertile floret. Lower glume reduced or lacking. Upper glume about as long as the sterile lemma. Bristles few, hidden.