Puelia olyriformis (Franch.) Clayton

Perennial, arising from a short rhizome.. Culms 40 cm. to 1 m. high, erect, the leaves and panicle borne upon the same culm.. Leaf-blades broadly lanceolate, 12–30 cm. long and 2–6 cm. wide, glabrous, with fine transverse nerves, rounded or broadly cuneate at the base, tapering to an acuminate tip; leaf-sheaths glabrous.. Panicle linear, 10–20 cm. long and 1–3 cm. wide, the spikelets clearly pedicelled.. Spikelets narrowly ovate, 10–16 mm. long; glumes unequal, the lower 2–4 mm, long, the upper 4–5 mm, long; ♂ lemmas ovate, 9–11 mm. long, herbaceous to chartaceous, finely ridged by the prominent nerves; anthers 3.5 mm. long; ♀ lemma lanceolate, 10–11 mm. long, subtended by a fleshy frill 0.2 mm. high around its base.. Fig. 5.