Cynodon incompletus Nees

Rhizomes usually absent. Culms erect, c. 1 mm wide, herbaceous; flowering culms 9–22 (–40) cm high. Leaves: basal sheaths glabrous, pilose, or hirsute; orifice bearded; ligule a laciniate membrane, 0.5–1 mm long; blade flat, 2–5.5 cm long, 1–3 mm wide, acuminate, dull pale green or dull dark green, often glaucous. Inflorescences digitate; branches 3–5, 1.5–4 cm long, moderately rigid. Spikelets disarticulating above or between the glumes; rachilla not prolonged. Glumes unequal in length, with the lower narrower than the upper, lanceolate to ovate; lower glume less than half as long as basal lemma, 0.6–1 mm long; upper glume ±half as long as basal lemma, 1.2–1.5 mm long. Basal lemma (2.1–) 2.5–3 mm long; keel narrowly winged; hairs extending the length of the lemma. Anthers 1.5–2 mm long, orange.

Persistent in pastures and heavy trafficareas around buildings; seems to prefer basaltic or alluvial soils; also known fromless disturbed areas, in myall-brigalow country and on poorer soils.