Eragrostis parviflora

Tufted annual, or under appropriate conditions, perennial, culms ascending to erect, to 130 cm high (occasionally plants dwarfed with spreading culms only c. 10 cm long). Leaves strongly ribbed, glabrous, or with marginal hairs; blade flat or inrolled, to 20 cm long and 4 mm wide. Inflorescence typically a rather narrow panicle to 50 cm long, lower branches whorled, branches remaining erect, or occasionally widely spreading, the spikelets usually remaining almost appressed to their branches. Spikelet mostly 5–18-flowered, 3–12 mm long and 1–1.5 mm wide, dark grey- to purplish-green; glumes acute or erose at apex, 0.7–1.8 mm long, the upper only usually scabrous along the keel and longer than the lower by c. 0.5 mm; lemma 1.5–2 mm long, obtuse, usually finely scabrous along the keel; palea slightly shorter than lemma; anthers c. 0.2 mm long. Flowers Oct.–Jun.