Loudetia filifolia Schweick.

Tufted, slender, wiry perennial to 600 mm high; basal leaf sheaths shortly and loosely hairy; leaves mainly cauline, often without leaf blades near the base; culm narrow, branched after first node. Leaf blade to 100 x to 2 mm, filiform; ligule an inconspicuous fringe of hairs. Inflorescence usually open, more rarely somewhat contracted; branches and pedicels pubescent or scabrid. Spikelet 6-8 mm long; glumes without tubercle-based hairs; lower glume 1/2 as long as upper glume, acute to acuminate or shortly awned; upper glume shorter than lower lemma, acuminate; lower lemma similar to upper glume; upper lemma minutely 2-lobed, central awn up to 20 mm long; callus of upper floret oblong, truncate or rounded; stamens 3; anther 2.8-3.3 mm long.