Annuals; culms (5-)15-45 cm high, erect or geniculately ascending. Leaf-blades 4-9 cm long, 2.5-3 mm wide, glabrous; upper sheaths slightly inflated; ligule 2-3 mm long, obtuse. Panicle 1-5 cm long, 3-5 mm wide, tapering towards the tip. Spikelets 3-3.5 mm long; glumes subacute or obtuse, convergent at the tips, connate for a quarter to a third their length, narrowly winged on the keel, minutely hairy on the wing, glabrous on the sides; lemma as long as or slightly longer than the glumes, subacute or obtuse, the margins connate for a third to half their length; awn absent or represented by a short stump near the base of the lemma; anthers c.0.6 mm long.

Fl. & Fr. Per.: March-April.

Type: Northwest India (? Nepal), Wallich 3780(K).

Distribution: Pakistan (Baluchistan & Punjab); Northwest India and Nepal.

Common in the plains, usually in damp places. To be expected in Kashmir.