Citation: P. Beauv., Agrost. 55 (1812).

Derivation: Greek arrhen, male; athe awn; alluding to the awn of the male floret.

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Tall slender perennials; leaf blade linear; ligule hyaline.

Inflorescence a panicle; spikelets compressed laterally, 2-flowered, both florets sessile and hairy at the base, the lower one male, with an exserted bent dorsal awn and twisted column, the upper one bisexual and fertile, with a short straight awn; rhachilla ending in a slender bristle; glumes unequal, membranous, acute, glabrous, the first 1-nerved, the second 3-nerved; lemmas acute, thin, 5-nerved.

Distribution:  6 species from Europe and the Mediterranean.

Biology: No text

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