South Africa.
Tribolium obliterum is a perennial grass in the Poaceae Family. It has decumbent or erect culms 12-40 cm long, with 3-4 nodes . The leaf blades are linear and narrow, 0.5-1 mm wide and 1-8 cm long, without cross venation. Plants in the genus Tribolium are bisexual with bisexual spikelets and hermaphrodite florets. It its native range, flowering occurs in the spring (September - November). The fruit (caryopsis) is small, 1-2 mm in length, yellow-brown in color, obovate, and compressed dorsiventrally. In California, stolons were observed on some plants during the winter, but did not appear to be rooting or producing new plants (TNC Invasives).
Not sold as an ornamental.