Pentameris densifolia (Nees) Steud.

Softly herbaceous perennial 90-250 mm high, cushion-forming; stolons present; basal sheaths brown, soon rotting away; leaves cauline; stalked, crateriform glands on leaves and pedicels. Leaf blade to 40 x to 1.5 mm, expanded, rigid, old blades drying pink; sheaths mouth with a ring of bristles. Inflorescence open, 10-50 x 5-35 mm, with 1-50 spikelets; pedicels glabrous or scaberulous; axils hairy. Spikelet 3.5-4.5 mm long; glumes acute to acuminate, yellow or green, scaberulous along keels; lemma 2.00-2.25 mm long, hairy along keel and margins; lateral awn 1-2 mm long, extending up to glume apices; central awn 3-6 mm long; palea hairy in upper half; anthers 1.5-1.8 mm long.