is a native of Australia introduced, presumably on trial as a fodder grass, to Pakistan (F-5 Khairpur dist.: Kotdiji Agr. Farm, cultivated, 27 October 1955, S. M. H. Jafri 1111 (K, KUH) ). It is distinguished from Dichanthium annulatum by its sessile or subsessile racemes and a subapical ciliate fringe on the lower glume of the sessile spikelet.