Tetraria fasciata C.B.Clarke

Perennial herb, tufted, 0.38-0.50 m high. Leaves: sheaths brown, old outer sheaths cancellate; blades setaceous, 0.7 mm wide, C-shaped. Culm nodose, terete, 1.0-1.2 mm in diam. Inflorescence a diffuse, slender panicle 100-200 mm long, with long, ± capillary branches, bearing few, solitary spikelets. Subtending bracts sheathing culm, sheaths dark brown to blackish, blade leaf-like, green. Spikelets lanceolate, 8-11 x 2 mm; flowers 2, lower male, upper bisexual. Glumes: fertile lanceolate, ± 7 mm long, keel excurrent into ± 1 mm long, slightly recurved awn. Perianth absent. Flowering time Aug. (very young), May. Nutlet (seldom collected) long-stalked, elliptic, including stalk ± 3.2 mm long, reddish brown; style base small, surface with angles thickened, wrinkled at top, otherwise minutely reticulate.