Rytidosperma lepidopodum

Slender perennial, developing long, scaly rhizomes. Culms to 60 cm high. Leaves glabrous to sparsely hairy; blade flat or channelled, becoming inrolled on drying to 15 cm long, and 2 mm wide. Panicle linear to narrowly ovate, rather sparse and with few (usually less than 20) spikelets, to 8 cm long. Spikelets purplish when young, mostly 3- or 4-flowered; glumes subequal, lanceolate, 8–14 mm long; lemma 3–4 mm long, lightly and more or less evenly covered with hairs which are occasionally aggregated into tufts in an indistinct, slightly longer upper series; lateral lobes erect, 3–5 mm long, evenly tapered to the 1–2 mm long setiform tips or setae lacking; central awn weakly twisted in the lower c. 2 mm, exceeding lateral lobes by 3–6 mm; palea narrow-lanceolate or oblong, far exceeding sinus and approaching or equal to the tips of the lateral lobes. Flowers Nov.–Mar.