Aristida dasydesmis Mez

Densely tufted slender perennial to 800 mm high; leaves mainly cauline; culms 1.5-3.0 mm in diameter, much branched from the upper nodes. Leaf blade to 300 x about 1 mm, folded, straight, erect and rigid. Spikelet 25-30 mm long (including awns); lower glume just over 1/2 the length of the upper glume, mucro or awn absent; lemma articulation (sometimes inconspicuous) between the lemma apex and column base, or absent; column to 6 mm long; awns three, laterals well developed; callus apex naked, truncate, obliquely truncate or slightly emarginate; anther 1.2-3.5 mm long.