Pentameris glandulosa Nees

Tufted perennial, 100-350 mm high; basal sheaths white, shiny, persistent; leaves basal; glands on leaves, pedicels and glumes. Leaf blade 80-300 x 1-3 mm, U-shaped, rigid, blades with scattered sunken glands, margins smooth, sheath mouth hairy; ligule a fringe of hairs. Inflorescence an open panicle, 40-100 x 30-100 mm, nodes hairy; pedicels glabrous, with sunken or stalked glands. Spikelets 4.0-5.5 mm long, laterally compressed, awned; glumes ± equal, 1-nerved, acute to acuminate, brownish, sparsely scaberulous along margins or along keels, with sunken or stalked glands. Florets 2; lemmas 7-9-nerved, glabrous or hairy basally; lateral awns 2-3 mm long, as long as to exserted from glumes; central awn 5-10 mm long, twisted below; palea glabrous; anther 1.5-2.8 mm long; ovary apex glabrous. Flowering time Oct.-Dec.