Annual; culms fasciculate, rarely solitary, geniculately ascending, 6-25 cm high. Leaf-blades 1.5-6 cm long, 1-2 mm wide, scaberulous above and on the margins, and with sparse whitish tubercle-based hairs at the base; sheaths with scattered tubercle-based hairs. Heads 5-10(-12) on a rhachis 24 cm long. Glumes, including the awns, up to 8 mm long, rarely longer, usually with white or occasion-ally purple hairs, the lower a little longer than the upper; lowest lemma 3-lobed, the lobes aristate, the central longer and narrower at the base than the laterals, 4-4.5 (-5.5) mm long; palea equalling the lemma or slightly shorter than it.

Fl. & Fr. Per.: August-September.

Type: India, Jacquemont 383 (K,P).

Distribution: Pakistan (Sind); Central and southern India.

A small tufted grass common in stony and barren places. It is said by Duthie to be a good grazing grass when young, though rather too small to be of much account.