Sporobolus creber

Tufted perennial, culms erect, to 120 cm high. Leaves smooth, ciliate along the margin of the sheath and lower blade; blade flat or slightly channelled, to 30 cm long and 4 mm wide; ligule rudimentary. Inflorescence a slender, interrupted, spike-like panicle, to 40 cm long, with usually 6–20 erect, appressed branches, each 1–3 cm long. Spikelets 1.2–1.8 mm long, greyish, later becoming straw-coloured; glumes membranous, the lower obtuse to truncate, sometimes toothed, 0.4–0.7 mm long, the upper obtuse to acute, 0.6–1.2 mm long; lemma acute, membranous; palea subequal to lemma. Spikelet widely gaping about the ridged, truncate grain c. 0.7 mm long at maturity. Flowers Jan.–May.