Triraphis mollis

Tufted glabrous perennial, culms to 60 cm high. Leaf-blades flat to narrow-involute, to 20 cm long and 2–4 mm wide, smooth or minutely scabrous, often somewhat glaucous; ligule a dense row of cilia, 1–3 mm long. Inflorescence a dense oblong panicle 7–20 cm long, sometimes interrupted. Spikelets 10–17 mm long (including awns), 6–10-flowered, the upper 3 or 4 sterile; glumes narrowly oblong, 4–7 mm long, subequal; lemma very narrow, 4–6.5 mm long (excluding awns but including the narrow, acute callus), apical cleft 0.5–1.5 mm deep, ciliate along and near margins; awns subequal, c. 6–7 mm long, the lateral pair arising c. 1 mm below the central one; palea linear, reaching to about the sinus of the lemma. Flowers all year.