Trisetopsis barbata (Nees) Röser & A.Wölk

Densely tufted perennial 600-800 mm high. Leaf blade 150-320 x 1.5-3.5 mm, narrowly linear, expanded. Inflorescence 80-100 mm long, oblong, open. Spikelet 14-17 mm long (excluding awns), usually loosely flowered; glumes unequal, lanceolate, acute to acuminate; lower glume acute, 1-nerved, glabrous but scaberulous along the nerve; upper glume longer than 1/2 as long as spikelet, 3-nerved; rachilla internode 3.0-3.5 mm long, bearded with white hairs 5 to 6 mm long; lemma narrowly lanceolate, smooth or minutely granular below central awn insertion, minutely scabrid on the nerves upwards; palea keels minutely and inconspicuously hairy; anther 2.6-2.8 mm long.