Citation: Andersson ex Fourn., Mex. Pl. Gram. 51 (1886).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Tufted perennials; leaf blade flat; ligule membranous.

Inflorescence of paired racemes terminating the culms and their branches and subtended by spathe-like bracts; spikelets compressed in pairs, 1 sessile with a lower male floret and an upper bisexual floret, 1 pedicellate and sterile; glumes of fertile spikelet equal, the first truncate or 2-toothed, second glume boat-shaped, 3-nerved, first lemma hyaline, second lemma with a geniculate hairy awn, palea usually 0; pedicellate spikelets usually slightly longer than the sessile, awnless.

Distribution:  About 75 species from Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia.

Biology: No text

Author: Not yet available