Urochloa oligotricha

Description

Tufted perennial,30-60 cm high.Leaf blades 6-9 mm wide.Racemes dense,few to 20,spreading,on a finely-hairy axis;spikelets crowded,acuminate,3-4 mm long,glabrous or with fringed margins (Napper,1965).It is more densely tufted and robust than U.mosambicensis.It has a stout,short,creeping rhizome and the culms are sometimes bulbous at the base (Chippendall,1955).One extreme form has been found to have a stolon of reasonable length (Burt,personal communication).