Eragrostis setifolia

Slender, tufted or shortly rhizomatous perennial, the base swollen with a series of short subtending bracts (cataphylls) that are woolly in the axils, culms erect, usually unbranched, to 60 cm high. Leaves glabrous (except at summit of sheath); blade stiff, erect to slightly spreading, narrowly inrolled, to 8 cm long and 0.8 mm wide, sharp-pointed. Inflorescence a narrow, but open to moderately dense panicle, to 10 cm long and 4 cm wide, lower branches solitary. Spikelets 7–35-flowered, 4–20 mm long and 1.3–2.3 mm wide, straight or slightly curved, green to dull purplish grey; glumes acute, 0.8–1.7 mm long, subequal, membranous; lemmas 1.4–2 mm long, obtuse, margins remaining pale in purplish specimens, lateral nerves about midway between margins and keel; palea slightly shorter than lemma; anthers 0.5–0.8 mm long. Flowers mainly Sep.–Apr.