Culms rambling, smooth and glabrous, 15–50 cm tall. Leaf sheaths glabrous to pubescent, ciliate on one margin; leaf blades narrowly lanceolate, 5–18 × 0.5–1.5 cm, glabrous to pilose, midvein abaxially distinct, apex acuminate; ligule 1–1.5 mm. Panicle 3–12 × 1–2 cm, contracted, branches ascending, up to 3 cm, pilose with long scattered hairs or hairs mostly confined to the axils; pedicels stout, short. Spikelets reddish brown at maturity, ca. 2 mm, glabrous except for some hairs at the base (hairs up to 2/3 length of lower glume); glumes 3-veined, acute, the lower 1.2–1.5 mm, the upper slightly shorter than spikelet; lower lemma obtuse or subtruncate; upper lemma yellowish or yellowish brown, smooth and shining. Anthers ca. 1 mm. Fl. and fr. Oct–Mar. 2n = 36.

Damp places in shade. Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Yunnan [Bhutan, India, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Vietnam; Australia].

Panicum oxyphyllum Hochstetter ex Steudel, Syn. Pl. Glumac. 1: 65. 1853; Cyrtococcum pilipes (Nees & Arnott ex Buse) A. Camus; Panicum hermaphroditum Steudel; P. pilipes Nees & Arnott ex Buse.

Annuals, Terrestrial, not aquatic, Stolons or runners present, Stems nodes swollen or brittle, Stems geniculate, decumbent, or lax, sometimes rooting at nodes, Stems mat or turf forming, Stems terete, round in cross section, or polygona l, Stem internodes hollow, Stems with inflorescence less than 1 m tall, Stems, culms, or scapes exceeding basal leaves, Leaves mostly cauline, Leaves conspicuously 2-ranked, distichous, Leaves sheathing at base, Leaf sheath mostly open, or loose, Leaf sheath smooth, glabrous, Leaf sheath hairy, hispid or prickly, Leaf sheath and blade differentiated, Leaf blades lanceolate, Leaf blades ovate, Leaf blades 2-10 mm wide, Leaf blades 1-2 cm wide, Leaf blades mostly flat, Leaf blades mostly glabrous, Leaf blades more or less hairy, Leaf blades scabrous, roughened, or wrinkled, Ligule present, Ligule an unfringed eciliate membrane, Ligule a fringed, ciliate, or lobed membrane, Inflorescence terminal, Inflorescence a contracted panicle, narrowly paniculate, branches appressed or ascending, Inflorescence solitary, with 1 spike, fascicle, glomerule, head, or cluster per stem or culm, Inflorescence branches more than 10 to numerous, Flowers bisexual, Spikelets pedicellate, Spikelets laterally compressed, Spikelet less than 3 mm wide, Spikelets with 1 fertile floret, Spikelets solitary at rachis nodes, Spikelets bisexual, Spikelets disarticulating below the glumes, Rachilla or pedicel glabrous, Glumes present, empty bracts, Glumes 2 clearly present, Glumes equal or subequal, Glumes shorter than adjacent lemma, Glumes 1 nerved, Glumes 3 nerved, Lemma coriaceous, firmer or thicker in texture than the glumes, Lemma 5-7 nerved, Lemma glabrous, Lemma apex acute or acuminate, Lemma awnless, Lemma margins inrolled, tightly covering palea and caryopsis, Lemma saccate or swollen, Palea present, well developed, Palea membranous, hyaline, Palea longer than lemma, Stamens 3, Styles 2-fid, deeply 2-branched, Stigmas 2, Fruit - caryopsis.