Hybrid Beardgrass

Description

Racemes digitate; 6-11 cm long; with branchlets at base of longer racemes. Central inflorescence axis 0.6-5.5 cm long. Rhachis fragile at the nodes; flattened; villous on margins. Rhachis hairs 5-7 mm long. Rhachis internodes linear. Rhachis internode tip transverse.Spikelets in pairs. Fertile spikelets sessile; 1 in the cluster. Companion sterile spikelets pedicelled; 1 in the cluster. Pedicels linear; flattened; with a translucent median line (also present in internodes); villous; hairy all along but hairs longer above; with 5-7 mm long hairs.