Citation: Trin., Fund. Agrost. 187 (1820).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Usually perennials; leaf blade narrow; ligule membranous.

Inflorescence usually a lax panicle; spikelets 1-flowered; usually forming a triplet at the summit of the capillary panicle-branches or peduncles, the triplet consisting of 1 sessile bisexual spikelet and 2 pedicellate male or sterile spikelets, their pedicels flat, rigid and shorter then the fertile spikelet which sits between them at the base of each triplet on a hairy callus which disarticulates from the capillary branch and falls off with the triplet leaving a scar at the summit of the branch; fertile spikelet compressed laterally; glumes of fertile spikelet equal, stiff, sometimes shortly awned; first lemma smaller, hyaline, second (fertile) lemma narrow and hyaline, with a short or long bent and twisted awn rising between the 2 teeth; palea minute or 0; sterile spikelets compressed dorsally.

Distribution:  About 25 species from tropical and subtropical parts of the world.

Biology: No text

Author: Not yet available