Schismus barbatus

Tufted, often reddish or purplish annual with erect or geniculate and spreading culms to 35 cm high. Leaves glabrous to lightly hairy; blade incurved to finely inrolled, to 10 cm long and c. 1.5 mm wide when flattened; ligule membranous, to 1 mm long, ciliate on margins and with a prominent tuft of hairs to 4 mm long at the sides. Inflorescence a slender panicle 2–7 cm long. Spikelets 6–11-flowered, flattened-cylindric, 7–11 mm long; glumes subequal, acuminate, 5–8 mm long; lemmas ovate, 1.8–2.5 mm long, membranous, ciliate along margins and usually in lower half of dorsal surface, apical notch to c. 0.5 mm deep, the mucro not or barely exceeding apex or sometimes absent; palea cuneate, rounded at apex, approaching the base of the notch in the lemma. Flowers mostly Sep.–Dec.