Beckeropsis uniseta(Nees) K. Schum. [family POACEAE], (1895). [type as above]
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Tufted perennial; stems robust, 0.6–4 m high, 2–15 mm in diameter at the base, rarely smaller and mat-forming; leaves broadly linear to linear-lanceolate, often falsely petiolate; ligule a line of hairs. Panicles numerous, axillary, slender, 2–4 cm long, gathered into a copious false panicle; rhachis with rounded ribs and distinct peduncle-stumps, minutely pubescent; involucre reduced to a single bristle below each spikelet; bristle glabrous, 2.5–9(–40) mm long, often purplish. Spikelets narrowly elliptic, 2–3 mm long; glumes 0.2–0.5 mm long, truncate, emarginate or obtuse, rarely the upper subacute and up to 0.8 mm long; lemmas as long as the spikelet, membranous, scaberulous, the lower barren.
