Rytidosperma laeve

Tufted perennial. Culms to 60 cm high. Leaves glabrous to lightly hairy; blade flat or channelled, rarely finely inrolled, to 20 cm long and 2 mm wide. Panicle typically rather dense and narrowly ovate to linear, 3–6 cm long. Spikelets (particularly margins of glumes) often purplish, mostly 4–6-flowered; glumes subequal, narrowly acute to acuminate, 11–20 mm long; lemma 4–5.5 mm long, usually strongly contracted toward the base, with a well-defined upper row of hairs, the lower row reduced to marginal tufts (occasionally with a few hairs nearer the centre), 1.5–2.5 mm above the callus tuft; lateral lobes erect, 8–12 mm long, the setae about half this length; central awn exceeding lateral lobes by 5–10 mm; palea lanceolate to narrowly obovate, exceeding sinus by up to 2 mm. Flowers Sep.–Nov.