Slender plants, 5–15 cm high, many cm long. Culm internodes c. 1 mm long. Leaves: sheath c. 5 mm long, c. 5-nerved, ciliate at apex, smooth or scaberulous with almost smooth margins; ligule a fringe of hairs, usually 0.5–1.3 mm long; blade 6–20 mm long, c. 0.3 mm wide, subacute to obtuse, herbaceous, slender, thickly 1-nerved, pilose with simple and tubercle-based hairs, usually scabrous (especially on margins). Panicles 20–30 mm long, 20–40 mm wide, eglandular or weakly glandular. Glumes slightly exceeding florets, ovate-oblong, c. 1 mm long, obtuse to truncate, notched, denticulate on apical margins, muticous or mucronulate, 1-nerved. Lemma obovate, c. 0.8 mm long, notched, hyaline, strongly 1-nerved. Palea 2-keeled but nerveless. Caryopsis ellipsoid, 0.3–0.5 mm long, striate or wrinkled.
Grows in small clumps or dense mats on shallow soils in crevices,seepage, depressions and similar seasonally moist habitats on plateaux and slopesof sandstone and coarse conglomerate, often in association with Triodia spp. and other Micraira spp.
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