Geochloa lupulina (L.F.) N.P.Barker & H.P.Linder

Tufted perennial 400 mm high; culm base bulbous, covered in old, persistent, densely woolly leaf sheaths. Leaf blade 75-150 x to 3 mm. Inflorescence 20-35 mm long, densely contracted, branches obscured. Spikelet 9-12 x 6-8 mm; glumes 7-10 mm long, 1(-3)-nerved; 2-5-flowered; lemma 6-8 mm long, back densely covered from base to middle by short hairs, and a row of long, white hairs across the middle, glabrous above; lobes 2.5-3.5 mm long, adnate to the central awn for part of their length, usually ending in a short, soft awn; central awn 4-8 mm long, straight, seldom geniculate; anther 2.4-3.7 mm long.