Tribolium ciliare (Stapf) Renvoize

Weakly tufted annual to 100 mm high; stolons absent. Leaf blade to 20 x to 1 mm; glabrous or sparsely hairy, hairs tubercle-based. Inflorescence a terminal, contracted, cylindrical panicle, 5-12 mm long, partly enclosed in uppermost leaf sheath; a dehiscence node absent below flag-leaf. Spikelet 2-3 x to 1 mm, not distichous; florets 2; glumes as long as spikelet or slightly shorter, acute, 5-nerved, hairs tubercle-based, tapering apically; lemma acute, awnless, back and keel glabrous, margins hairy, hairs acute, 0.3-0.5 mm long; palea acute, hairy between keels, marginal long hairs absent; anthers 0.5ª0.6 mm long.