Deyeuxia breviglumis

Weakly tufted  perennial, culms ascending to erect, 5–50 cm high. Leaves glabrous; blade channelled to almost terete, smooth or scabrous toward the tip, to 10 cm long and 1.5 mm diam., generally rather stiff; ligule obtuse to truncate, to c. 1.5 mm long. Inflorescence an ovoid panicle, mostly to c. 8 cm long, the branches initially contracted but rigidly spreading at maturity. Spikelets 1.9–2.3 mm long, green or purplish; glumes obtuse, truncate or emarginate, sub-equal or the lower slightly shorter, c. half as long as spikelet, minutely scabrous along the keel near apex; lemma acute, smooth, the 5 nerves conspicuously thickened, awned from shortly below the apex; awn rather thick, straight or slightly recurved, to c. 1 mm long, usually shortly exceeding lemma apex; callus glabrous; rachilla bristle c. half to two-thirds as long as lemma, glabrous. Flowers Feb.–Mar.(–Apr.)