Eriochloa pseudoacrotricha

Tufted perennial. Culms erect, to c. 70 cm high, nodes pubescent. Leaves glabrous or sparsely pubescent; blade 7–20 cm long and 2–7 mm wide; ligule c. 1 mm long. Panicle 5–15 cm long, with 4–8 loosely appressed branches 3–6 cm long. Spikelets dorsally compressed, 4–6 mm long, shortly pedicellate, in two rows along the flattened branches, pedicels ciliate toward apex; lower glume purplish, c. 0.5 mm long, closely adhering to rachilla; upper glume obscurely 5-nerved, acuminate, the tip narrowed to a mucro or short awn 0.5–1 mm long, the whole as long as the spikelet, covered dorsally with white, silky hairs, slightly granular beneath the hairs; lower (sterile) lemma equal or subequal to upper glume; fertile lemma elliptic, c. 3 mm long (including a slender terminal awn c. 0.5 mm long), hardened, white, granular, sometimes finely transversely ridged. Flowers Nov.–Mar.