Tribolium utriculosum (Nees) Renvoize

Tufted annual to 90 mm high; stolons absent. Leaf blade 10-100 x to 2.5 mm, expanded, sparsely to densely hairy, hairs tubercle-based; bristles around sheath mouth. Inflorescence a contracted 10-20 mm long panicle, usually partly enclosed in uppermost leaf; a dehiscence node absent below flag-leaf. Spikelet 2-5 x to 2 mm; florets 3-6; glumes 4.5-5.0 mm long, longer than spikelet, acuminate to long-acuminate, apex reflexed, glabrous to scabrid, long inflated tubercle-based hairs present; lemma 3.3 mm long, acute, awnless; club-shaped hairs, 0.2-0.4 mm long on margins; back with acute, scattered hairs; palea acute, hairy between keels, margins with tufts of long hairs; anthers 1.0-1.5 mm long.