Eleusine indica

Tufted or stoloniferous annual or rarely perennial, culms ascending to erect, to 70 cm high. Leaves glabrous or sprinkled with fine, tubercle-based hairs along the margins near the sheath/blade junction; blade channelled or closely folded, to 25 cm long and 6 mm wide; ligule 0.5–1 mm long. Inflorescence commonly with 1–several spikes below the terminal umbel. Spikelets 3–9-flowered, 4–7 mm long; glumes acute, narrowly winged along the keel, the lower 1-nerved, 2–3 mm long, the upper 3–7-nerved, 3.5–5 mm long; lemma similar to but slightly longer than upper glume and 1–3-nerved; seed papillose, c. 1.5 mm long. Flowers Jan.–Mar.