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

Tufted perennial 80-400 mm high; basal sheaths white, shiny, persistent; leaves basal; stalked, crateriform glands on leaf margins, leaves, pedicels and glumes. Leaf blade to 100 x to 4 mm, expanded, inner surface hairy; margins smooth; sheath mouth with a ring of bristles. Inflorescence open, 30-80 x 20-50 mm, with ±100 spikelets; pedicels scaberulous, at least some longer than spikelets; axils hairy. Spikelet 5.0-6.5 mm long; glumes acuminate, hyaline, glabrous or scaberulous; lemma 2.8-3.0 mm long, hairy all over; lateral awns 2.0-3.5 mm long, extending up to and beyond glume apices; central awn 8-10 mm long; palea glabrous; anthers 2-3 mm long.