Japan Flora: Firixi perennial with extensively creeping stolons; culms 15-30 cm. long or sometimes more, erect or ascending, branched below; leaf-sheaths 2-5 cm. long, usually overlap­ping, the ligule truncate, short, ciliolate, the blades fragile, linear, 5-15 cm. long, gradually narrowed to a fine point, usu­ally loosely involute, glabrous, pale green; spikelets 7-15 mm. long, the upper glume linear-lanceolate, gradually narrowed to tip, rigid. Oct. Seashores,

Kyushu (Tanegashima); rare. Africa, India to Malaysia, North Australia, Polynesia, and Japan