Ectrosia anomala C.E.Hubb.

Annuals. Flowering culms 10–60 cm high. Leaves: basal sheaths glabrous or pilose; blade 0.7–3 mm wide, pilose or glabrous. Inflorescences: rachis glabrous, scaberulous; branches 1.4–4.5 cm long, far apart, spreading or divaricate or reflexed. Spikelets spreading to reflexed, overlapping or close together, oblong, with l:w 3 or less, 5.5–9 mm long, 2–3 mm wide, 4–10-flowered, with 1–4 closely or loosely overlapping bisexual florets. Glumes: lower glume 1.5–3 mm long; upper glume 2–3 mm long. Basal lemma obliquely lanceolate, usually straight or sometimes convex on the back, 2.8–4.8 mm long, entire, muticous, with texture similar to or firmer than glumes, membranous to coriaceous, 3-nerved, scaberulous or scabrous, glabrous; midnerve scaberulous. Upper bisexual lemmas becoming narrower acropetally, lanceolate from second, awned or awnless. Palea 1/2–2/3 length of lemma body; body scaberulous, pubescent; keels ciliolate or ciliate. Distal incomplete florets with narrower and more-tapered awned or awnless lemmas.

Known from damper places in openforest on grey sandy or solonetzic soil and in drying out sandy seepage slopes andchannels.