Pentameris chippindalliae (H.P.Linder) Galley & H.P.Linder

Tufted perennial 300-500 mm high; basal sheaths either burnt-off leaf bases, or persistent, white, shiny, glabrous; leaves basal; glands absent. Leaf blade to 200 x to 0.5 mm, rolled, soft, often curly; sheath mouth hairy. Inflorescence open, 70-90 x 50-80 mm, with ± 50 spikelets; pedicels not hidden by spikelets, glabrous; axils hairy. Spikelet 4.5-7.5 mm long; glumes finely acute, yellow, glabrous or scaberulous along keels; lemma 2.5-3.0 mm long, acute, hairy all over; lateral awns 2-3 mm long, reaching up to glume apices; central awn 7-10 mm long, geniculate; palea glabrous; anthers 3 mm long.