Aegopogon Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.

Spikelets in groups of 3, the groups pedunculate, spreading, falling entire, arranged alternately on opposite sides of a slender flattened axis, the central spike-let fertile, the lateral ones staminate or neuter; spikelets 2-flowered; glumes equal, 1-nerved, notched at the apex, awned from between the lobes; lemmas 3-nerved, longer than the glumes, the nerves extending into awns.