Sporobolus pellucidus Hochst.

Densely caespitose perennial, the base of the culms invested in the fibrous remains of old leaf-sheaths; culms 20–75 cm. high.. Leaf-blades convolute, 4–15 cm. long, 1–2 mm. wide, filiform at the tip.. Panicle narrowly lanceolate, 6–20 cm. long; primary branches spreading or ascending, subsecund, densely spiculate from the base, up to 1–2 cm. long.. Spikelets 1.7–2(–2.2) mm. long, grey-green to dark green; lower glume oblong and obtuse to ovate and acute, 0.7–0.8 mm. long, hyaline; upper glume narrowly ovate, 1–1.5 mm. long, (1/2–)2/3–3/4 as long as the spikelet, acute; lemma ovate-elliptic, as long as the spikelet, acute; anthers 3, 0.8–0.9 mm. long.. Grain obovoid to ellipsoid, 0.6–0.8 mm. long.