Trisetopsis natalensis (Stapf) Röser & A.Wölk

Tufted perennial, 400-800(-1 000) mm high. Leaf blade 100-250 x 3-5 mm, expanded. Inflorescence to 250 mm long, usually open, with branches spreading. Spikelet 7-9 mm long (excluding awns), usually closely flowered; glumes unequal, acuminate; lower glume linear-lanceolate, 1-nerved, glabrous, scaberulous along the nerve; upper glume 2/3 as long as spikelet, 3-nerved; rachilla internode about 1.5 mm long, hairs 3 mm long; lemma lanceolate, glabrous, minutely granular, usually smooth, nerves usually raised, central awn column a loose spiral; lowest lemma shorter than 7 mm from the base to where lobes start; anther 1.6-2.4 mm long.