Dichelachne inaequiglumis

Usually rather fine and delicate, culms ascending to erect, mostly to c. 70 cm high, mostly smooth and glabrous, occasionally with scattered short hairs. Leaves glabrous or with scattered short hairs; blade flat or inrolled, to 20 cm long, 1–3 mm wide; ligule membranous, truncate, 0.1–0.5(–1) mm long. Inflorescence a loose panicle to 20 cm long, usually with rather few, distant, spreading or appressed branches, the longer branches without spikelets in the lower third; glumes acute, 2.5–5.5 mm long, the lower usually shorter than upper by c. 1 mm; lemma exceeding the lower glume by up to 2.5 mm, minutely scabrous; awn usually inserted up to c. 0.5(–1.1) mm from lemma apex, 12–18 mm long, sinuate or weakly twice-bent, not twisted or twisting up to c. 3 times along the barely differentiated column. Flowers Nov.–Mar.