Plants perennial. Culms 40-200 cm tall, slender, ascending or straggling from basal tufts, much branched. Blades 10-35 cm long, 2.5-14 mm wide, linear, long attenuate. Panicles 10-30 long, with up to 20 spikelike branches racemosely arranged on the central axes, clustered towards the top; branches 5-16 cm long, loosely ascending. Spikelets 4-7 mm long, with 6-14 florets, narrowly oblong; glumes shorter than the lemmas, oblong, obtuse; lower glumes 1.8-2.3 mm long; upper glumes 2-2.6 mm long; lemmas 1.7-2.5 mm long, oblong, shortly pilose over the veins, tips rounded, emarginate. Grains 1-1.2 mm long, elliptic-oblong, concavo-convex; pericarps free.
Disakisperma obtusiflorum grows in deciduous bushland and grassland, often scrambling through bushes, and as a weed in disturbed area at 3200-1700 m. Its range extends from Ethiopia, Sudan and South Sudan, Somaliland and Somalia (regions N1-2, C2, S2-3 of the Flora of Somalia) Zaire, Angola, Saudi Arabia, and North Yemen. It used to be included in Leptochloa.