Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Rev. Gram. 1:160 (1829).

Description:
Tufted perennials; leaf blades flat; ligule a membrane with or without hairs.

Inflorescence of digitate or fascicled spike-like racemes; rhachis of racemes articulate; spikelets in pairs, 1 sessile and 1 pedicellate, both similar and fertile, 1-flowered or with a lower sterile floret; glumes equal, membranous to coriaceous, truncate, villous, the first 2-keeled, the second 1-3-nerved; first lemma small or 0, the second very short, 2-lobed, awned.

Distribution:  About 30 species from tropical and subtropical parts of Africa, Asia and Australia.

Biology: No text

Author: Not yet available