Geochloa rufa (Nees) N.P.Barker & H.P.Linder

Tufted perennial to 400 mm high; base bulbous, covered in old persistent, woolly sheaths. Leaf blade to 200 x to 4.5 mm. Inflorescence 30-70 mm long, globose or cylindrical; spikelets densely clustered. Spikelet to 25 x to 15 mm; glumes 10-18(25) mm long, 3-5-nerved; 4-7-flowered; lemma 7-12 mm long, back shortly and densely pubescent from base to middle region, a row of white hairs present across the middle, glabrous above; lobes 3.0-6.5 mm long, adnate to the central awn for part of their length, usually ending in a short, soft awn; central awn 6-16 mm long, geniculate; anther 2.5-4.5 mm long.

Can be grown by divisions or seedlings.