Eragrostis divaricata Cope

Panicle 3–8 cm long, broadly ovate, very loose and open with widely divaricate branchlets and pedicels, the spikelets evenly distributed on filiform pedicels 3–6 mm long, the primary branches not in whorls, terminating in a fertile spikelet, the branches, branchlets and pedicels long-pilose (sometimes with only a single hair) on a conspicuous swelling in the axils, eglandular (except on the axillary swelling).Spikelets 1.3–1.8 × 0.7–0.9 mm, narrowly ovate, laterally compressed, 2–3-flowered, the florets disarticulating from the apex downwards, the rhachilla fragile; glumes subequal, 0.8–1.1 mm long, reaching to about the middle of the adjacent lemmas, keeled, narrowly lanceolate in profile, glabrous, acute at the apex; lemmas 1.1–1.3 mm long, keeled, elliptic in profile, thinly membranous but with conspicuous lateral nerves, not imbricate, the rhachilla visible between them, olive-green, glabrous, obtuse at the apex; palea glabrous on the flanks, the keels slender, wingless, scabrid; anthers (?)2, c. 0.3 mm long.