Annuals grass. Culms 25-80 cm long, trailing, creeping and rooting at the lower nodes; nodes softly hairy. Leaves 1.5-7 x 0.8 – 2 cm, elliptic-lanceolate, base oblique. Lower glume 2-3 x 1 mm. Upper glume 2-3 x 1 mm, ovate-elliptic, Lower floret barren. Upper floret bisexual.