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This is a slender annual grass with geniculately ascending stems, radiating on all sides.

From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.

Stems are erect or geniculately ascending, usually short, leafy and branched below, glabrous and shining, 1/2 to 2 feet long.

From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.

These are tall leafy slender perennial grasses, with branching stems erect or geniculately ascending from a creeping or decumbent base.

From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.

The stems are somewhat stout, tufted, erect or ascending geniculately from a creeping and rooting base, varying in length from 1 to 3 feet and with internodes to 6 inches becoming longer upwards.

From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.

This grass is an annual with slender leafy stems, branching at the base, prostrate at first and then geniculately ascending, terminating in inflorescences and varying in length from 3 to 15 inches.

From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.