Ehrharta barbinodis Nees

Tufted perennial, shrub or dwarf shrub 300-900 mm high; rhizome short, knotted; culms several, branched, woody, lowest nodes not swollen and hard ('bulb-like'), nodes retrorsely hairy. Leaf blade short, 10-100 x to 4 mm, expanded, hairy. Spikelet 10-13 x ± 3 mm; glumes almost equal or lower shorter, both shorter than spikelet; sterile lemmas similar, smooth, with hairs on keels and margins only, apices produced into a short awn (especially 2nd lemma); 1st sterile lemma shorter and narrower; 2nd sterile lemma without an ear-like appendage at base, sometimes faintly transversely ribbed; anther 4.4-6.5 mm long.