Tragus australianus

Annual, culms ascending or erect, 5–40 cm high. Leaf-blade flat, 2–10 cm long and 3–6 mm wide, glabrous except for coarsely ciliate margins; ligule a ciliate collar 0.5–1 mm long. Inflorescence a spike-like panicle 2–10 cm long. Spikelets 3–4.5 mm long, in pairs, one sessile and the other shortly pedicellate falling with the c. 0.5 mm common peduncle attached; outer glume lacking; inner glume oblong, completely enclosing emma and palea, the 5 nerves strongly thickened and each bearing a row of thick, finely hook-tipped bristles c. 0.5 mm long; lemma and palea acuminate, membranous, c. three-quarters as long as glume. Flowers mainly Nov.–Apr.