Pentameris oreophila N.P.Barker

Cushion-like or densely bushy, erect to somewhat decumbent perennial 250-530 mm high; leaves cauline; culm branched basally. Leaf blade 60-110 x 1.5 mm, tightly rolled, falcate to curved, pungent; leaf sheath persistent, loosely adpressed or free from culm, hairy along margins; without auricles. Inflorescence contracted, 30-80 mm long, with 8-20 spikelets. Spikelet 14-20 x 3-10 mm; glumes 1-nerved, usually glabrous; lemma 3-4 mm long, lobes acute to acuminate, 1.3-3.0 mm long, adnate for about half their length to lateral awns; lateral awns 5.5-10.5 mm; central awn 13.5-17.0 mm long; palea 5.5-8.5 mm long; lodicules glabrous; anthers 4.0-5.5 mm long; ovary apex with tuft of white hairs; fruit 3.5-4.0 x 1.6-2.0 mm, sub-globose, surface colliculately sculptured, pericarp brittle.