Molineriella minuta

Culms erect 4–12 cm high, smooth, shining. Leaves tufted, glabrous; blade flat or folded, to 5 cm long and 2 mm wide, usually much shorter than culm; ligule membranous, truncate or rounded at apex, 1–2 mm long. Inflorescence an open, broadly ovoid panicle to 7 cm long and 5 cm wide, with spreading capillary branches. Glumes subequal, narrowly ovate, 1–1.5 mm long, smooth, shining, purplish; lemma narrowly ovate, equal to or shortly exceeding glumes, truncate, shallowly notched or erose at apex, sparsely and minutely scabrous along the veins, wholly glabrous or with a few minute hairs at the base; palea oblong, slightly shorter than lemma. Flowers Aug.–Oct.