Pentameris aspera (Thunb.) Galley & H.P.Linder

Cushion-forming perennial 300-600 mm high, sticky; base glabrous; basal sheaths soon rotting away; leaves cauline; culms branched; stalked glands on leaves, pedicels and glumes. Leaf blade 40-100 x 3-6 mm, expanded, glabrous or hairy; sheath mouth with a ring of bristles. Inflorescence open, 30-90 x 15-60 mm, with ±100 spikelets; pedicels not hidden by spikelets, scaberulous; axils glabrous or hairy (often on same inflorescence). Spikelet 5-7 mm long; glumes acute, yellowish-green with purple awns, glabrous or scaberulous; lemma 2.5-3.5 mm long, hairy all over; lateral awns 3 mm long, extending to glume apices; central awn 8-10 mm long; palea hairy in upper half; anthers 2.5-2.8 mm long.