Stipagrostis geminifolia Nees

Shrub or dwarf shrub to 250 mm high, erect or geniculate; leaves mainly cauline. Leaf blade 10(-20) x to 2 mm, not well developed, usually very short, expanded, rigid. Inflorescence ovate to oblong, not or only slightly exserted from uppermost leaf sheath; spikelet fascicles densely clustered, the uppermost sometimes separated from the rest. Spikelet 10-14 mm long; glumes densely covered with long white hairs; lemma smooth; articulation between apex of lemma and base of column; column short, glabrous; only central awn plumose, hairs usually golden; callus 2 mm long, apex naked, pungent; anther 4.3-5.3 m long.