Catapodium marinum

Culms erect or spreading, to 20 cm long. Leaves glabrous; blade 1–10 cm long, 1–3.5 mm wide, blunt at apex, smooth on lower surface and margins, minutely scabrous along nerves of upper surface; ligule blunt, 0.5–3 mm long. Inflorescence usually a narrow, spike-like raceme, 0.5–7 cm long. Spikelets 4–10 mm long, 4–12-flowered; glumes subequal, 1.8–3.3 mm long; lemma 2.2–3 mm long, dorsally rounded in the lower part, keeled by the thickened mid-vein and slightly incurved toward the apex, more or less ovate in side-view, c. 1.5 mm broad when flattened out. Flowers Oct.–Jan.