Chloris diluta Renvoize

Perennial 300-1 000 mm high; with rhizome and stolons; culm wiry, usually erect. Leaf blade 100-300 x 4-7 mm, acuminate, tapering to a fine point, densely hairy. Inflorescence digitate or subdigitate, racemes 4-6, 50-80 mm long, green tinged with purple; spikelets delicate, overlapping for about half their lengths. Spikelet 2-4 mm long, 2-flowered; lower glume 2.0-2.5 mm long; upper glume 3.3-4.0 mm long; lowest lemma 3.5 mm long, elliptic, hairy only on upper half of the margins, otherwise glabrous, awn 8-12 mm long, pallid at maturity; second lemma 1 mm long, narrowly oblong, awn 2-8 mm; anther 1.0-1.2 mm long.