Tribolium tenellum (Nees) Verboom & H.P.Linder

Tufted annual 40-150(-250) mm high; sparsely hispid. Leaf blade 5-15 x to 0.8 mm, rolled, falcate; blade and sheath usually sparsely hispid. Inflorescence 5-20 mm long. Spikelet 4-7 x to 2 mm, 3-5-flowered; glumes 4-7 mm long, sometimes tinged with purple at apex; lemma 1.8-2.5 mm long (including lobes), hairs 0.5-1.2 mm long, in numerous tufts in a row across middle of back below awn insertion, around base and near margins; lobes broad, truncate, awnless, glabrous; central awn 2.8-4.0 mm long, geniculate, with column (twisted) and bristle; palea 1.8-2.4 mm long, glabrous, keels long hairy from middle for short distance to well below apex; anthers 1.4-1.8 mm long.