Eragrostis pilgeriana Dinter ex Pilg.

Spikelets 6.5–8.5 × 4.5–7 mm, broadly ovate, strongly laterally compressed, 5–9-flowered, disarticulating below the glumes and falling entire; glumes subequal, 3.2–4.5 mm long, reaching to just beyond the middle of the adjacent lemmas, keeled, lanceolate in profile, glabrous, subacute at the apex; lemmas 4.3–5.2 mm long, keeled, lanceolate in profile, subcoriaceous with conspicuous lateral nerves, diverging from the rhachilla at c. 45° but those in opposite rows imbricate and concealing the rhachilla, green tinged with brownish-purple, narrowly winged and scabrid on the keel, narrowly obtuse at the apex; palea glabrous on the flanks, the keels somewhat thickened and cartilaginous, winged throughout, the wing protruding from the sides of the lemma, the wing margin irregularly lacerate and minutely ciliolate; anthers 3, c. 0.5 mm long.