Deyeuxia contracta

Tufted annual or perennial, culms weakly ascending or erect, to 80 cm high. Leaves smooth to finely scabrous, occasionally sparsely slightly hairy; blade flat, to 20 cm long and 3.5 mm wide, generally weak and flaccid; ligule obtuse, 1–3 mm long. Inflorescence a loosely contracted panicle, 5–12 cm long (rarely more). Spikelets plumpish, mostly 2–2.5(–3) mm long, mostly pale green, maturing to straw-coloured; glumes acute, gaping at maturity, the upper usually slightly longer, both scabrous along the keel; lemma equal to or slightly exceeding the glumes, acute, rather plump, minutely scabrous, thin and hyaline toward the apex, awned from just below the apex; awn fine, straight, c. 0.5 mm long, not or barely exceeding lemma; callus hairs to c. 0.8 mm long; rachilla bristle 0.4–0.7 mm long, glabrous or with fine hairs to c. 0.5 mm long; anthers c. 0.3 mm long. Flowers Dec.–Mar.