Panicum carneovaginatum Renvoize

Tufted perennial; culms 45–145 cm. high.. Leaf-sheaths keeled, chartaceous, tinged pink; blades linear, 20–55 cm. long, 1–3 mm. wide, straight at the base, folded, glabrous, acuminate.. Panicle oblong, 10–30 cm. long, branches ascending, rarely spreading, the lower branches often bare for the lower 1/3.. Spikelets ovate-oblong, 2.2–2.8 mm. long, glabrous, often orange in colour and purple tinged, acute; lower glume cuff-like, 1/3–1/2 the length of the spikelet, (1–)3-nerved, acute; upper glume broadly ovate, 7-nerved, acute; lower lemma broadly ovate, 7-nerved, sterile, its palea absent; upper lemma dark and glossy.