Ehrharta ramosa Thunb.

Perennial, shrub or dwarf shrub, 0.3-1.0 m high; rhizomes woody, branched; culm up to 5 mm wide, woody. Leaf blade up to 30 x 1 mm or absent, but reduced blades sometimes present; ligule an unfringed membrane. Inflorescence a panicle, open or contracted; pedicels erect to ascending or spreading to reflexed. Spikelet (5.5-)6.0-7.5(-9.0) x 2-3 mm; glumes ± equal, shorter to longer than spikelet, 5-nerved. Florets 3; lower 2 florets sterile, apex usually mucronate, lemmas similar, sides hairless, second sterile lemma with a pair of ear-like appendages at base; uppermost floret bisexual, lemma firmer than glumes; anther 2.6-4.0 mm long. Flowering time Sept.-Jan.