Dichelachne micrantha

Culms erect, to 1 m high, glabrous or minutely scabrous. Leaves glabrous or with short, scattered hairs; blade flat or inrolled, to 20 cm long, 1–3 mm wide, often scabrous on the upper surface; ligule membranous, truncate, c. 0.5 mm long. Inflorescence a narrow, loose to moderately dense, spike-like panicle at maturity, sometimes with shortly spreading branches when young, 5–15 cm long; glumes acute to acuminate, 3–4 mm long, the lower usually shorter than upper by c. 1 mm; lemma 3–4 mm long, equal to or slightly longer than lower glume, smooth to minutely scabrous; awn inserted 0.5–0.9 mm below lemma apex, 10–20 mm long, sinuate or weakly twice-bent, the column neither strongly twisted nor distinctly thicker than the bristle. Flowers Oct.–Feb.