Mat-forming grass with long stout deeply penetrating rhizomes bearing dense tufts of spiny glaucous shoots at the nodes; stems up to 30 cm high, branched only at the base; leaves loosely inrolled, up to 6 cm x 5 mm, somewhat stiff and pungent. Panicle narrowly elliptic to elliptic-oblong, 1.5–7 cm long; spikelets 4- to 9-flowered, 5–9 mm long; lower glume 1.8–2.4 mm long; upper glume 2.7–3.3 mm long; lemma 2.3–3.3 mm long.
Range
S2 tropical Africa south of the Zaire River.
Altitude range
Coastal
Distribution
SOMALIA Maunder 4.
Distribution (external)
Tanzania
Notes
The one specimen representing this species in Somalia is in poor condition and its determination, based almost entirely on habit, is tentative.
