Tribolium uniolae

Tufted perennial, culms erect to 60 cm high. Leaves smooth and glabrous; blade inrolled, rather stiff, to 20 cm long and 1.5–3 mm wide; ligule oblique, ciliate, with hairs c. 0.5 mm long. Inflorescence a distichous, secund spike or spike-like panicle, 2–6 cm long, 0.6–1.5 cm wide. Spikelets ovate, 5–8 mm long, 3–10-flowered; glumes almost as long as entire spikelet, abruptly tapered to a slender, often slightly recurved point; lemmas c. 5 mm long, smooth, firm and obscurely nerved, awnless, pilose in the lower third to half with club-tipped hairs c. 0.5 mm long. Flowers Oct.–Dec.