Compilation
Ehrharta eckloniana

culms geniculate-ascending or erect, usually simple, weak, 1–2 ft. long, glabrous, smooth, 3–4-noded, uppermost internode up to 9 in. long; sheaths rather loose, glabrous, smooth; ligules truncate, up to 1 lin. long; blades linear from a clasping fimbriate base, 3–6 in. by 1/2–5 lin., flaccid, scaberulous or smooth, usually softly hairy or glabrescent, margins wavy, scabrid; panicle narrow, up to 1/2 ft. long, flaccid, loose; rhachis smooth, branches in distant semi-whorls, very unequal, the longest up to 2 in., simple or sparingly branched, filiform to capillary, flexuous, glabrous below, or like the capillary pedicels spreadingly hairy or scabrid; pedicels up to 4 lin. long; spikelets oblong-lanceolate, more or less secund, often nodding, 3 1/2 lin. long; lower glume lanceolate, acuminate, 1–1 1/4 lin., 5-nerved; upper glume oblong, cuspidate, 1 3/4–2 lin. long, 7-nerved; empty valves lanceolate-oblong, produced into a beak or a scabrid subulate awn of varying length (1–5 lin.), 7-nerved, the lower 3 lin. long, with a minute beard in front and 2 small tufts of hairs at the back of the base, scabrid above and often transversely rugose below, the upper up to 3 1/2 lin. long, with a pair of inconspicuous bearded ridges at the base; fertile valve oblong, subacute, 2 1/2–2 3/4 lin. long, 7-nerved, glabrous, not appendaged; lodicules ciliate; stamens 6; anthers 3/4 lin. long; stigmas brush-like. null