An Annual herb. with erect, or geniculately ascending culms. Leaf-sheath oral hairs ciliate. Leaf-sheath auricles falcate. Ligule an eciliate membrane. Leaf-blades 3–6 cm long; 2–3 mm wide. Leaf-blade surface pubescent; hairy on both sides. Inflorescence composed of racemes; deciduous as a whole bearing few fertile spikelets; bearing 2–7 fertile spikelets on each. Spikelets solitary. Fertile spikelets sessile. Fruit Caryopsis with adherent pericarp; hairy at apex.
Mareotic Sector
Cyprus, Greece, Crete, Libya, Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Turkey, Arabia, Iraq, Iran, Azerbaijan.
Sandy ground.
Annual
Height: to 40 cm
