Eragrostis exigua

Delicate, tufted annual, culms ascending, erect or semi-prostrate, sometimes branched, to 25 cm high (rarely more). Leaves glabrous; blade flat or inrolled, to 15 cm long and 6 mm wide, scabrous on upper surface and on thickened pale margins. Inflorescence an open, oblong to narrowly pyramidal panicle to 15 cm long and 5 cm wide (more than half the length of the culm), with widely spreading or deflexed branches, lower branches solitary or paired. Spikelet 2–5-flowered, 0.5–1.5 mm long and 0.5–1.2 mm wide, pale green, pinkish, or almost colourless, all segments thinly membranous; glumes obtuse, subequal, 0.5–1 mm long; lemma c. 0.5 mm long, obtuse, conspicuously nerved; palea slightly shorter than lemma; anthers c. 0.2 mm long. Flowers recorded Apr. and Aug.