Compilation
Leersia abyssinica

perennial; rhizome creeping, stoloniferous; innovation-buds ovoid, subacute. scales smooth, striate; stems erect from a prostrate or ascending base, rooting from the lower nodes, 2–4 ft. high, simple or very sparingly branched, usually slender and weak, many-noded, smooth, firmly striate; uppermost internode longest (up to 1/2 ft., rarely to 1 ft., long); sheaths rather tight or the lower looser and ultimately spreading, terete, usually shorter than the internodes, the uppermost longest, reaching to or almost to the panicle, glabrous, slightly scabrid or smooth, except the villous nodes; ligule short, obliquely truncate or bilobed, firmly membranous; blades narrowly linear, tapering to a fine point, 3–6 in. by 1 1/2–4 lin., glaucous, usually subrigid, very slightly scabrid; panicle 2–4 in. long, erect or more or less flaccid and nodding, narrow; branches suberect, simple, up to 1 1/2 in. long, filiform, flexuous, angular, slightly scabrid or smooth; spikelets often closely imbricate, subsecund and laterally concavo-convex, obliquely oblong, 1 1/2–2 lin. long, sometimes purplish; sides of valve scabrid or smooth; stamens 6; anthers 1–1 1/4 lin. long. null