Dichelachne robusta

Culms erect, 100–170 cm long, smooth and glabrous. Leaves glabrous; blade flat, 15–30 cm long, 2–5(–8) mm wide; ligule membranous, truncate or erose, 2–5 mm long. Inflorescence narrowly ovate to loosely contracted, sometimes interrupted, 25–35 cm long; glumes acute to acuminate or the lower one sometimes obtuse and mucronate, 3.5–6 mm long, subequal or the upper longer by up to 1.5 mm; lemma equal to upper glume or exceeding it by 0.5 mm, smooth to scabrous, particularly in upper half; awn inserted about 0.5 mm from lemma apex, 10–16 mm long, sinuous, the column hardly differentiated, not or barely twisted at maturity. Flowers Oct.–Dec. (3 records)