Global description
Pycreus flavescens is a small, annual plant, 10 to 20 cm high in general, that grows in clumps. Simple or compound inflorescence is finger shape, consisting of elliptical spikelets, greenish brown in colour.
General habit
Annual plant in clumps, 10 to 30 cm high.
Underground system
Fibrous roots.
Stem
The stem is erect, 10 to 30 cm long, triangular in section.
Leaf
The leaves are few; they are staged in the lower third of the stem, arranged in a tristichous way. The sheath is leafy at the base, the blade is linear almost as long as the flower stalk.
Inflorescence
The inflorescence is digitate or composed of short flower stalks underpinned by 2-4 spreaded leaf bracts. It consists of a number of spikelets usually greater than 5. It is usually simple but may consist of one or two groups of spikelets carried by lateral flower stalk.
Flower
The spikelets are narrowly elliptic. They are 5 to 10 mm long and 2 to 2.5 mm wide. They are greenish brown color. Style is bifidus.
Fruit
The fruit is a biconvex achene.