Tricholaena teneriffae (L.F.) Link

Perennial, forming tussocks from a woody rootstock; culms 10–60 cm. high, ascending, wiry with narrow leaves or herbaceous and leafy.. Leaf-blades flat or involute, 2–15 cm. long, 1–5 mm. wide.. Panicle usually narrowly oblong, 3–15 cm. long, fairly dense.. Spikelets 2.5–3.5 mm. long; lower glume a tiny truncate scale (rarely up to 0.5 mm.); upper glume ovate, tuberculate-pilose with white hairs extending 0.5–4 mm. beyond the tip but often giabrous on the upper 1/4, acute and usually mucronate; lower lemma resembling the upper glume.

A tropical plant. It grows in arid areas.