Tripogonella loliiformis

A small, tufted annual or perennial to 35 cm (but often less than 15 cm high). Leaves sprinkled with fine hairs, or rarely, glabrous; sheath pale; blade closely folded to inrolled, to 5 cm long and 1.5 mm wide when flattened out; ligule ciliate at apex, c. 0.5 mm long. Inflorescence a very slender spike. Spikelets 6–14-flowered, 3–12 mm long, shallowly recessed, remaining erect, the lower ones often rather distant, the upper often overlapping, mostly purplish; glumes obtuse, the lower 1.5–2.2 mm, the upper 2.5–3.5 mm long; lemma ovate, 2–2.5 mm long (excluding awn), obtuse, notched at apex with the midvein exserted as an awn arising from the base of the notch and exceeding lemma by up to 1.5 mm, callus with a dense tuft of silky hairs c. 1 mm long. Flowers most of year, mainly Oct.–Mar.