Citation: Cyr., Pl. Rar. Neap. 2:26 (1792).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Perennials; leaf blades flat, somewhat rigid; ligule short find often ciliate.

Inflorescence a spike-like panicle; spikelets all alike and generally in pairs, unequally pedicellate, disarticulating from their pedicels; glumes subequal, membranous, 3-9-nerved, enveloped by long silky hairs from their bases and the callus; lemmas 2, usually much shorter then the glumes, hyaline, awnless, the first sterile or male, the second bisexual; palea hyaline, nerveless.

Distribution:  About 10 species from the tropics and subtropics.

Biology: No text

Author: Not yet available