Spikelets 2–4-flowered with reduced terminal floret, shortly pedicelled, slightly laterally compressed, disarticulating above the glumes but not between the florets; glumes persistent, subequal, 1-nerved, acuminate; lemmas 3-nerved, dorsally lightly keeled, hairy on the lateral nerves, obtuse or emarginate at the apex, shortly awned from the back.
Inflorescence of racemes scattered along a central axis.
Caryopsis linear-oblong, terete.