Deyeuxia minor

Slender tufted, glabrous perennial, culms ascending or erect, to 50(–100) cm high. Leaf-blades flat or folded, to 15 cm long and 2(–7) mm wide, smooth or finely scabrous, often flaccid; ligules obtuse, mostly 1–2 mm long (but to 7 mm in very robust specimens). Inflorescence typically a dense cylindrical panicle 1.5–4(–12) cm long. Spikelets (2.5–)3.2–3.8(–4.5) mm long and rather plump, green or more often purplish; glumes equal, acute, strongly scabrous along the keel; lemma c. three-quarters as long as spikelet, rather strongly constricted above midway, prominently 3–5-nerved, strongly scabrous below midway and along the nerves, shortly 4-toothed at apex, awned from about midway; awn as long as or longer than lemma, twisted in lower part; callus hairs to c. 0.8 mm long; rachilla bristle not produced. Flowers Nov.–Dec.