Brachiaria leersioides (Hochst.) Stapf  

1. B. leersioides (Hochst.) Stapf = Panicum leersioides Hochst.): Annual, pale-green, tufted grass, with glabrous culm and acuminate leaves.  Racemes remote patent, loose-flowered, about 2 cm.  long.  Spikelets small, glabrous, 2 mm.  long, with few long hairs on the short pedicels.  In valleys, weed in fields, along irrigation canals