Ehrharta longiflora

Tufted annual, culms erect to 90 cm high. Leaf-blades flat, to 40 cm long, 5–25 mm broad, margins minutely scabrous, often undulate toward base; ligules membranous, toothed, 1–4 mm long. Inflorescence a slender panicle, usually 8–15 cm long. Spikelets drooping, 10–28 mm long; glumes less than half as long as spikelet, the lower acute to acuminate, the upper slightly longer than lower, obtuse, sometimes shallowly toothed at apex with a narrow central point, both usually purplish, glabrous or sparsely hairy; sterile lemmas awned for about half their length, the lower slightly shorter than upper, both scabrous at least apically, sometimes transversely ribbed, obscurely 7-nerved, with small hair-tufts near base; fertile lemma 6–8 mm long, remaining enclosed in upper sterile lemma. Flowers mainly Aug.–Dec