Corynephorus fasciculatus Boiss. & Reut.

Plant to 60 cm tall. Leaves: ligule 6–10 mm long, membranous; blade flat, convolute when dried, 0.5–1.5 mm wide, strongly ribbed and glabrous on adaxial surface, shallowly ribbed and sparsely scabrous on abaxial surface. Inflorescence an open panicle, with spikelets concentrated toward branch tips in dense groups. Spikelets 2.8–3.7 mm long; rachilla prolonged above upper floret but obscure, hirsute; rachilla internode relatively long, hirsute. Glumes opening widely at maturity, with lemma awns slightly shorter to slightly emerging. Lemma 1.5–1.8 mm long, acute to acuminate, sometimes minutely bidentate, microscaberulous all over; awn twice as long as body of lemma, articulated slightly below lemma apex, gradually enlarged in upper half to clavate tip, scaberulous on clavate part. Stamens 2; anthers c. 0.5 mm long.