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

Neat round, cushion-forming perennial 80-200 mm high; sheath bases, shiny white, persistent; leaves cauline; glands absent. Leaf blade 40-50 x 1 mm, expanded at base; margins smooth; sparsely, scattered tubercle-based hairs present on blade and sheath or sheaths glabrous; sheath mouth with a ring of stiff hairs. Inflorescence widely open, 20-35 x 15-35 mm, with 10-20 spikelets; axils with long erect hairs. Spikelet 2.5 mm long, 1-flowered, awnless; glumes acute, straw-coloured, base purplish; lemma 2.2-2.5 mm long, clavate hairs scattered between nerves; palea glabrous or with few clavate hairs between keels; anthers 1.6-1.9 mm long.