Eragrostis sabulosa (Steud.) Schweick.

Tufted perennial 60-150 mm high, rhizome long, creeping; leaves mainly cauline; culm internodes short and exceeded by the leaf sheaths. Leaf blade 10-40 x to 3 mm. Inflorescence usually less than 40 mm long, very dense; branches adpressed to main axis; spikelets densely crowded, adpressed to branches. Spikelet to 7 x 1.5-2.0 mm, dark olive-grey; rachilla tardily breaking up between florets; glumes unequal, acute to obtuse, jagged; lower glume 3/4 up lemma above; lowest lemma 1.6-2.5 mm long, keeled, lateral veins ± indistinct; palea keels with cilia less than 0.1 mm long, margins overlapping entire length; anthers 3, 1.2 mm long; caryopsis ellipsoid.