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

Tangled perennial 300-500 mm high; shoots spreading through vegetation; stolons horizontal; basal sheaths soon rotting away; leaves cauline; glands absent. Leaf blade to 15 x to 0.5 mm, flat, spreading from long, scandent aerial stems; rigid, margins incurved, glabrous, smooth; sheath mouth with a ring of bristles. Inflorescence open, 40 x 20 mm, with 10 spikelets; pedicels mostly erect, glabrous; axils glabrous. Spikelet 10-11 mm long; glumes acuminate, yellow, base purple, scaberulous along keels; lemma 4 mm long, hairy all over, especially towards apex; lateral awns 6 mm long, extending up to glume apices; central awn 14 mm long; palea hairy in upper third; anthers 3 mm long.