Citation: Parl., Pl. Nov. 59 (1842).

Derivation: After Giulio Avellino, a Neapolitan botanist.

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Small annuals; leaves more or less setaceous; ligule of hairs.

Inflorescence a loose panicle; spikelets solitary, pedicellate; rhachilla disarticulating above the glumes and between the florets, usually 3- or 4-flowered; glumes very unequal, the first very short and bristle-like, 1-nerved, the second 3-nerved; lemmas all fertile, with inrolled margins so as to appear cylindrical and very narrow, inconspicuously 1-3-nerved, shortly 2-fid, awned; awn scabrid, short, straight; palea 2-fid, 2-keeled.

Distribution:  1 species from the Mediterranean. (Airy Shaw (1966) A dictionary of the flowering plants and ferns, gives the correct name as Colobanthium Reichb., but this name has not been widely used.)

Biology: No text

Author: Not yet available