Japan Flora: Rather stout, firm annual; culms 30-50 cm. long; leaf-blades 10-25 cm. long, 4-7 mm. wide, flat; ligules nearly obsolete; uppermost sheath slightly inflated, elongate, the blade short; branches of inflorescence about 10, sparsely pilose, erect or ascending, 3-7 cm. long, sessile; spikelets numerous on one side of the branches, dense, pale green and sometimes dull, 2-keeled; stamens 3; caryopsis glabrous, smooth, the hilum purple; glumes narrowly lanceolate, the first 1.5 mm. long, the second awn-pointed, 3-4 mm. long; lemma obtuse, 3.5-4 mm. long, whitish hairy on upper margins, the keel obtuse, pubes­cent, bowed out about the middle; the awn delicate, erect, 10-15 mm. long; anthers 03 mm. long; sterile floret single, clavate, 1.5-2 mm. long, long-awned. Naturalized (?).

Kyushu; very rare. China, Korea, ccntr. Asia, Africa, and America