Perotis hildebrandtii Mez

Loosely tufted annual; culms 15–50 cm. high, geniculately ascending, rather wiry.. Leaf-blades broadly linear to narrowly lanceolate, 1–7 cm. long, 1.5–5 mm. wide.. Spike 2–20 cm. long, exserted from the uppermost sheath, the spikelets loose, distant by several times their own width (but occasionally much denser), spreading horizontally.. Spikelets 2.5–3.5 mm. long, with a conspicuous stipitiform callus 0.5–1 mm. long; glumes irregularly puberulous to sparsely hispidulous on the flanks, the midnerve of the upper glume broad, green, slightly depressed, spinulose-scabrid; awns slender, flexuous, 5–15 mm. long.. Caryopsis strongly flattened.. Fig. 106.

Roadsides and lawns.