Kew Bull. 20: 269 (1966).- Type: Espiritu Santo 7/1957, Pirada, Guinea Bissau (holo- K).
Eragrostis perbella of Berhaut, Fl. Sén. ,éd. 2, 410.
Regional litterature: Fl. Mauritania: 455 (1991); Pl. Mauritanie: 283 (1998); Pl. Vasc. Guinée-Bissau: 167 (2006); Fl. Guinea Bissau: 137 (2008); Fl. Guinée: 459 (2009); Pl. Burkina Faso: 88 (2012).
Description:
* Small annual of 25-40 cm high. Culms slender, 1 mm wide. Leaves lanceolate, 5-8 cm long; ligule a fringe of hairs of 2-3 mm long.
* Inflorescence a panicle of 12 cm long, with stiff branches and the spikelets on stiff pedicels of 0.5 mm long.
* Spikelets glabrous, yellow to reddish with light-green nerves, 8-12 mm long and 1.5-3 mm wide. Glumes lanceolate, 2.5 mm long. Lemmas 3 mm long, lanceolate and acute, at maturity distant, giving a dented appearance; paleas 1.3 mm long, scabrid on the keels, not deciduous and persistent on the racheole at maturity. Caryopsis globular, flattened, 0.5 mm long, light brown, smooth with a slight tuberculate surface.
Distribution West Africa and world-wide: Mauritania, Senegal, Gambia, Guinea Bissau, Guinea, Mali, Burkina Faso.