Trisetopsis galpinii (Schweick.) Röser & A.Wölk

Tufted perennial, up to 600 mm high. Leaf blade 120-160 x 2.5-3.0 mm, expanded, woolly-hairy; ligule an unfringed membrane. Inflorescence a contracted panicle, 100-160 mm long. Spikelets 8-10 mm long (excluding awns), laterally compressed, rachilla internode 1.25 mm long, with hairs 3 mm long; glumes almost equal, broadly lanceolate, acuminate, ± keeled; lower glume glabrous, 1-nerved, minutely scaberulous along nerve; upper glume as long as spikelet, 3-nerved. Florets 2-6; lemma lanceolate, rounded on back, covered with papillae and prickles, 2-lobed, lobes awned; central awn from between lobes, basal part twisted; anther 1.3-2.5 mm long. Flowering time Jan.-Mar.