Ehrharta erecta

Tufted perennial or annual, culms sprawling, geniculate or erect, mostly to 60 cm high. Leaf-blades flat, to 20 cm long, 2–12 mm broad, margins minutely scabrous, often undulate toward base; ligules membranous, laciniate, 1–5 mm long. Inflorescence an open panicle, 10–40 cm long, the spikelets usually remaining more or less appressed to panicle branches. Spikelets 3.5–4.5 mm long; glumes ovate, the lower 1.5–2.2 mm long, the upper 1.8–3.0 mm long, green and glabrous; lower sterile lemma obtuse, slightly longer than upper glume, smooth; upper sterile lemma obtuse, transversely ridged toward the apex, both lemmas glabrous or with a few short hairs near base; fertile lemma slightly shorter than upper sterile lemma, smooth and strongly keeled. Flowers all year, mostly Sep.–Mar.