Paspalum conjugatum P.J.Bergius

Strongly stoloniferous perennials with erect or sprawling shoots; stolons often with purple internodes. Leaf-sheath rather stiff, keeled, glabrous. Ligule 0.5–1.5 mm, slightly erose, truncate, narrowed centrally to a point. Collar hairs few, long. Leaf-blade 10–20 cm × 6–9 mm, linear-lanceolate, flat, soft, glabrous apart from long hairs near base, narrowed to acute or acuminate tip. Culm 20–45 cm, erect or ascending, slender, wiry, internodes compressed, glabrous. Panicle of 2–(3) widely divaricating slender racemes ± digitate at culm apex. Racemes 6–10 cm, rachis very narrowly-winged, 3-angled, sparsely scabrid, 0.6–0.8 mm wide, densely pubescent at base, bearing 2 rows of single shortly pedicelled spikelets; pedicels smooth. Spikelets c. 1.5 mm, imbricate, broad-elliptic to almost orbicular, acute, yellowish green. Lower glume 0, upper = spikelet, thin and closely appressed to upper floret, 2- or 3-nerved with median nerve often suppressed, glabrous apart from long fine hairs on lateral nerves. Lower floret: lemma = spikelet, similar in texture to upper glume; palea 0. Upper floret: lemma 1.2–1.4 mm, slightly indurated, 3-nerved; palea slightly narrower than lemma, membranous margins only slightly widened at base; anthers c. 0.5 mm, yellow; caryopsis not seen.

[From: Edgar and Connor (2000) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 5 (second printing).]