Pentameris airoides subsp. airoides

Present on leaves, pedicels and glumes. Leaf blade to 30-60 x to 2 mm, expanded, glabrous or hairy with bulbous-based hairs; margins smooth; sheath mouth hairy or with a ring of bristles. Inflorescence open, 20-60 x 20-50 mm, 30-100 spikelets; axils glabrous or hairy; pedicels not hidden by spikelets, glabrous or rarely hairy. Spikelet 2.5-3.5 mm long; glumes yellowish-green to purplish, glabrous, keels scaberulous; lemma 1.5-2.5 mm long, glabrous or hairy all over or only basally; lateral awn 2-3 mm long, extending up to and beyond glumes apices; central awn 5-8 mm long; anthers 0.3-1.0 mm long.