Coelachne africana Pilg.

Mat-forming perennial.. Culms 5–20 cm. high, ascending from a creeping branched base and rooting at the nodes.. Leaf-blades narrowly lanceolate, 0.6–2 cm. long, 1.5–4.5 mm. wide, flat.. Panicles 1.2–6 cm. long, up to 2.5 cm. wide, the branches up to 2 cm. long, loosely to sparsely spiculate.. Spikelets ovate-oblong to oblong, 2–2.5 mm. long, purplish or green; glumes broadly ovate to broadly elliptic, glabrous; lower lemma broadly ovate to ovate-elliptic, ± 2 mm. long, pubescent at the base; upper lemma elliptic to ovate-oblong, up to 2 mm. long, ± pubescent; anthers 2, 0.5–0.9 mm. long.. Fig. 119, p. 437.