Ehrharta rehmannii Stapf

Perennial, 0.12-1.00 m high, tufted, sometimes delicate, erect or straggling, often growing in dense masses. Leaf blade up to 15-300 x 8.5 mm; ligule a fringed membrane. Inflorescence an open raceme or verticillate panicle with up to 24 spikelets, or a narrow raceme of 12-36 erect, appressed spikelets. Spikelet ± 4.0-8.5 x 2 mm; glumes ± equal, ± as long as spikelet, 5-nerved. Florets 3; lower 2 florets sterile, lemmas similar, glabrous to shortly hairy to scabrous, apex usually muticous and awnless, second sterile lemma with a pair of ear-like appendages at base; uppermost floret bisexual, lemma firmer than glumes; anther 1.5-3.9 mm long. Flowering time Aug.-Feb.