Eragrostis acamptoclada Cope

Spikelets 4.5–8 × 2.5–2.8 mm, elliptic-ovate, laterally compressed, 8–15-flowered, the florets tardily disarticulating from below but the rhachilla becoming fragile; glumes subequal, 1.8–2.3 mm long, reaching almost to the apex of the adjacent lemmas, keeled, narrowly lanceolate in profile, glabrous, subacute to acute at the apex; lemmas 1.8–2.3 mm long, keeled, narrowly elliptic in profile, membranous with distinct lateral nerves, diverging from the rhachilla at c. 45°, those in opposite rows scarcely imbricate, the rhachilla ± visible between them, pallid with purple tinge, glabrous, truncate at the apex; palea tardily deciduous after the lemma, glabrous on the flanks, the keels slender, wingless, thinly scabrid; anthers 3, 1–1.4 mm long.