Lolium rigidum

Tufted annual, culms erect, to 100 cm high; stems typically reddish, particularly about the nodes. Leaf-blades flat, convolute when young, to 20 cm long and 8 mm wide; ligules to 1.5 mm long; auricles usually inconspicuous or absent. Spike to 30 cm long; rachis mostly more than 1 mm (to 2 mm) diam. Spikelets 5–11-flowered, 4–18 mm long; glume stiff, mostly three-quarters as long as to slightly longer than the spikelet; lemma ovate to oblong-lanceolate, awnless or rarely with an awn to 3 mm long. Flowers Aug.–Dec.