Pentameris uniflora N.P.Barker

Decumbent, soft perennial to 650 mm high; culm slender, flexuous. Leaf blade to 130 x 1 mm, soft, filiform, open or folded; sheath glabrous or hairy only on margins, adpressed to culm, auricles absent. Inflorescence 40-60 mm long; with 5-20 spikelets. Spikelet 11-12 x 1.5-3.0 mm; floret 1; glumes 1-nerved, glabrous; lemma body 4-6 mm long, lobes acuminate, 1.5-3.0 mm long, almost fully adnate to lateral awns; lateral awns 2.5-4.5 mm long; central awn 10.5-11.0 mm long; palea 5.5-6.5 mm long; lodicules glabrous or minutely ciliate; anther 3-4 mm long; ovary apex with tuft of white hairs; fruit with brittle pericarp.