Pentameris swartbergensis N.P.Barker

Tufted to decumbent perennial to 560 mm high; leaves cauline; culm basally branched. Leaf blade to 230 mm long, folded or rolled, sparsely hairy near base; sheath glabrous, adpressed to culm. Inflorescence somewhat lax, 80-90 x 20-35 mm, lanceolate, with 22-56 spikelets. Spikelet 11.5-13.0 x 2.5-3.0 mm; lemma 2.8-5.0 mm long; lobes acuminate, 1.4-1.5 mm long, adnate for about half their length to lateral awns; lateral awns 2.2-2.5 mm long; central awn 8.5-11.5 mm long, column 3 mm long, bristle from knee to apex 5.5-7.0 mm long; palea 4.5-5.0 mm long; lodicules cuneate, ciliolate at apex; anthers 3.1-3.5 mm long; ovary apex with tuft of white hairs; fruit 2.0-2.4 x 1 mm, broadly fusiform, surface colliculately sculptured, pericarp brittle.