(Eriochloa barbatus)
An annual, 15-100 cm high with linear leaf-blades. Inflorescence narrow, of up to ten racemes 2-4 cm long, with biseriate aristulate silky spikelets, having the basal beadlike internode pale or purplish. Spikelets obtuse without a bristle (Napper, 1965). Differs from Brachiaria in having a tiny beadlike swelling below each spikelet (Rose-Innes, 1977).