Rytidosperma erianthum

Tufted perennial. Culms to 70 cm high. Leaves usually pilose with tubercle-based hairs; blade fine, inrolled or rarely almost flat, to 25 cm long and usually less than 1 mm wide. Panicle ovate, compact or loose, 2–7 cm long. Spikelets rarely purplish, 4–8-flowered; glumes subequal, acuminate, 11–19 mm long; lemma rather broad, 3–4 mm long, with 2 rows of hairs, the lower c. 1 mm above the callus tuft, and virtually reaching the dense upper ring, the hairs of which normally exceed the twisted part of the central awn; lateral lobes erect or slightly spreading, 7–11 mm long, rather abruptly tapered to the setae which are about as long as or longer than the flat part; central awn exceeding lateral lobes by 3–8 mm; palea obovate, firm, the margin conspicuously ciliate, exceeding sinus by about 1 mm. Flowers Sep.–Dec.