2n = 28

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Small, greyish green or dull green, sometimes purple-tinged, short-lived perennial, forming slender tufts to c. 22 cm tall, branching extravaginally and occasionally intravaginally above; leaf-blades shorter than culms, wiry, persistent. Leaf-sheath pale brown to purplish, membranous, distinctly nerved, almost smooth abaxially with a few minute prickle-teeth just below ligule especially near the margins. Ligule 1-1.5 mm, ± lacerate with at least one deep cleft, abaxially minutely scabrous, tip dentate, ciliate. Leaf blade to 6 cm × 1 mm, folded, abaxially with sparse minute prickle-teeth on midnerve, elsewhere smooth, adaxially with minute stiff hairs, margins ± inrolled, with very minute prickle-teeth. Culms to 15 cm tall, very slender, purplish, smooth, with 1-2 cauline leaves spreading at right angles. Panicle 2-6 cm long, open, sparingly branched; rachis smooth, branches capillary, sometimes flexuous, smooth, with a few minute prickle-teeth above, and with 1 - 2 spikelets at tips. Spikelets 2 .2-3 mm, 2-3-flowered, silvery purplish green. Glumes subequal, 2-2.5 mm, with wide, hyaline margins, midnerve with sparse prickle-teeth near tip; lower narrower, elliptic-lanceolate, acute to acuminate, 1-3-nerved, upper ovate, obtuse, 3-nerved, sometimes with minute prickle-teeth on margins and on lateral nerves above. Lemma 2-2 .4 mm, 5-nerved, ovate, obtuse, covered for ¾ length with appressed, silky hairs c. 0.1 mm, and with sparse minute prickle-teeth near membranous tip. Palea c. 2 mm, with minute appressed hairs on keels and interkeels in lower ¾, with minute prickle-teeth on keels above. Callus with minute fine hairs. Rachilla to 0.5 mm with scattered long hairs or almost glabrous. Lodicules c. 0.4 mm. Anthers 0.7-1.1 mm, sometimes reddish. Gynoecium: ovary c. 0.5 mm; stigma-styles 1 - 1.4 mm. Caryopsis c. 1.5 × 0.7 mm. FL Nov-Jan, FT Dec-Mar. Chromosome number not determined. Chasmogamous. Endemic .

Gramen breviter perenne, parvum, griseo - viride, paniculis gracilibus folia involuta superantibus, lemmatibusque praeter in quarta parte superiore pilosis; Poam lindsayi multo simulans differt autem innovationibus praecipue extravaginalibus, ligul a longiore, ± lacerata non truncata, abaxialiter scabra, glumis, lemmatibus antherisque longioribus.