Polypogon monspeliensis

Tufted annual, culms erect, often geniculate at base, to 90 cm high. Leaf-blades flat, finely scabrous, to 20 cm long and 8 mm wide; sheaths smooth; ligules membranous, obtuse, 3–14 mm long. Inflorescence a dense, narrowly ovate to oblong panicle, 2–15 cm long and 1–3.5 cm wide, overall pale yellow-green; glumes oblong, 1.5–2.5 mm long (excluding awns), membranous, scabrous, ciliate along margins, shallowly notched at apex with a straight, slender awn 4–7 mm long arising from the notch; lemma ovate, c. half as long as glumes, hyaline, dentate, with a slender apical awn not or barely exceeding glumes; palea slightly shorter than lemma. Flowers mainly Sep.–Feb.