Eragrostis anacrantha Cope

Spikelets 4.5–6 × 1.8–2.6 mm, oblong to ovate-oblong, not compressed, (6)8–13-flowered, tardily disarticulating, if at all, the caryopses shed from the ± persistent floret scales; glumes unequal, narrowly ovate, glabrous, subobtuse at the apex, the inferior 0.8–1(1.5) mm long, scarcely reaching the middle of the adjacent lemma, the superior 1.2–1.6(2) mm long, reaching to beyond the middle of the adjacent lemma; lemmas 1.6–1.9 mm long, dorsally rounded, elliptic to broadly elliptic, thinly membranous with distinct lateral nerves, somewhat diverging from the rhachilla, those in opposite rows scarcely imbricate, the rhachilla visible between them, green or greyish-green to straw-coloured, often tinged with purple, glabrous to softly long-pilose on the flanks, obtuse at the apex; palea glabrous on the flanks, the keels slender, wingless, scabrid, broadly protruding from the sides of the lemma; anthers 3, 0.6–0.9 mm long.