Deyeuxia rodwayi

Tufted or (occasionally) stoloniferous perennial, culms erect or rather weakly ascending, to 90 cm high. Leaves smooth, scabrous or pubescent; blade flat, to 35 cm long and 4 mm wide (rarely wider); ligule laciniate, 1–4 mm long. Inflorescence a sparse to moderately dense panicle with rather short, appressed or spreading branches, 8–25 cm long. Spikelets 3–4 mm long, plump, usually green but sometimes purplish; glumes gaping at maturity, acute, subequal, scabrous along the keel; lemma subequal to spikelet, acute, finely scabrous, awned from midway to within 0.5 mm of apex; awn readily deciduous, rather stout and twisted at base, 1.5–3 mm long; callus hairs to c. 1 mm; rachilla bristle 0.3–1 mm long, glabrous or sparsely hairy; anthers mostly 0.5–1.2 mm long. Flowers Nov.–Mar.