Sporobolus nervosus Hochst.

Densely caespitose perennial, or with the shoots contiguous from the closely spaced nodes of a short oblique rhizome; basal sheaths yellowish, indurated, often covered by the fibrous remains of decaying sheaths; culms 15–20 cm. high, erect.. Leaf-blades flat, or more often convolute, 4–10 cm. long, 1–3 mm. wide, the tip filiform.. Panicle narrowly ovate, 7–20 cm. long, secondarily branched, the branches bare below and the spikelets secund and clustered at the tips of the branchlets.. Spikelets (1.5–)1.7–2.l mm. long, scaberulous or smooth, pallid greyish green to dark green; lower glume lanceolate, 0.8–1 mm. long, acute; upper glume narrowly ovate, (0.9–)1.3–1.9 mm. long, 2/3–4/5 as long as the spikelet, acute; lemma narrowly ovate, as long as the spikelet; anthers 3, 0.8–1 mm. long.. Grain ellipsoid, 0.6 mm. long.. Fig. 102.