Robies Cocksfoot

Only one collection of this species has been made in Pakistan. It is undoubtedly an introduction from South Africa but its status in this country is otherwise unknown.

Tufted perennial, sometimes forming clumps a metre across; culms 20-75 cm high, erect. Leaf-blades 5-20 cm long, 2-4.5 mm wide when flat, glaucous, rigid and glabrous. Inflorescence composed of 5-9(-11) ascending spikes 15-3 cm long, separated by half to twice their own length. Spikelets 4-55 mm long, closely overlapping; glumes unequal, lanceolate, the lower 1.7-2.8 mm long, the upper 2.3-35 mm long; fertile lemma elliptic in profile, 33-3.7 mm long.

Distribution: Pakistan (Baluchistan, introduced); South Africa.