Merxmuellera stereophylla (J.G.Anderson) Conert

Tufted perennial 800 mm high. Leaf blade to 360 x to 1.5 mm, rigid, erect; old leaves not breaking off above the sheath mouth and splitting or curling. Inflorescence contracted, shortly branched, to 180 mm long. Spikelet up to 20 mm long (including awns); glumes 11-18 mm long, 1-nerved; (3-)4-5-flowered; lemma 10-16 mm long, back glabrous, margins fringed, hairs short at the base becoming longer and ending in tufts of long hairs at the apex; lobes 5-7 mm long, free from central awn, awned; central awn 13-18 mm long, geniculate close to the base, twisted basally, the apical portion much longer than base and protruding from spikelet for some length; anther 2.5-3.6 mm long.