Eremochloa ophiuroides

E. ophiuroides is a perennial, stoloniferous, mat-forming grass. Culms decumbent, rooting and branching, flowering shoots 15-30 cm tall. Leaf sheaths keeled, overlapping at base, hairy at mouth;leaf blades flat, (1-)3-10 ? 0.2-0.4 cm, usually glabrous, apex obtuse;ligule 0.2-5 mm, margin ciliate. Raceme erect or slightly curved, 4-6 cm;rachis internodes narrowly oblong-clavate, glabrous, 2.5 mm. Sessile spikelet 3.5-4 mm;lower glume oblong, ± leathery, shiny, glabrous, 5-7-veined, marginal spines very inconspicuous, short along incurving lower keels or reduced to knobs, apex acute but appearing broadly truncate because of flanking membranous wings. Pedicelled spikelet vestigial or absent. Caryopsis about 2.0 mm long, narrowly elliptic (Flora of China Editorial Committee, 2016).