Paspalidium jubiflorum

Tufted, rhizomatous or stoloniferous perennial. Culms ascending or erect, to 90 cm high. Leaves glabrous; blade flat, slightly scabrous, to 20 cm long and 9 mm wide; ligule 0.5–1.2 mm long. Panicle 12–35 cm long; branches (mostly 1.5–4 cm long) remaining loosely appressed to the glabrous main axis. Spikelets 2.4–3.2 mm long; lower glume broadly ovate, c. 1.5 mm long, 3–5-nerved, the nerves connected by fine transverse veins toward the apex; upper glume ovate, 5-nerved, slightly shorter than the spikelet; lower lemma 5-nerved, as long as the spikelet, its palea rudimentary or lacking; upper lemma ovate, as long as or subequal to the spikelet, minutely pointed apically, hardened, transversely ridged toward base, margins pale, papery, laying flat over and largely concealing palea; palea sub-equal to lemma, hardened, granular. Flowers Nov.–Jun.