Tribolium brachystachyum (Nees) Renvoize

Prostrate cushion-forming to tufted perennial up to 300 mm high; stolons absent. Leaf blade 10-120 (rarely longer) x to 2.5 mm, expanded, soft, long hairy. Inflorescence terminal, spike-like, contracted, sometimes secund, ovate or cylindrical to 25 mm long, exerted from uppermost leaf; a dehiscence node absent below flag-leaf. Spikelet 4-5 x to 3.5 mm; florets (4-)5-9, distichous; glumes shorter to as long as spikelet, acuminate, usually with long, tubercle-based glassy hairs; lemma acute to obtuse, awnless, lower half evenly hairy; hairs 0.2 mm long, club-shaped; palea acute, keels may be slightly winged, glabrous or hairy between keels, margins long hairy; anthers 2.0-2.2 mm long.