Dichelachne sieberiana

Slender to rather robust; culms erect, 30–100 cm high, typically scabrous, particularly about the nodes, or pubescent, rarely glabrous. Leaves scabrous, usually shortly hairy; blade flat or folded, to 15 cm long, 1–3 mm wide; ligule membranous, truncate, 0.5–1.5 mm long. Inflorescence sparse, 4–25 cm long, variable, with short or long, apressed or spreading branches; glumes acute, 3–7 mm long, the upper c. 1 mm longer than lower; lemma exceeding lower glume by up to 2 mm, densely scabrous; awn inserted c. 0.5 mm from lemma apex, 10–15 mm long, distinctly twice bent (the upper bend often almost a right-angle), the column differentiated, strongly twisted at maturity. Flowers Nov.–Mar.