Brachyelytrum P.Beauv.

Spikelets 1-fld, articulated above the glumes; glumes minute, subulate to triangular, 1-veined; lemma linear-subulate, herbaceous, rounded on the back, gradually tapering into an elongate awn; palea 2-keeled; rachilla prolonged into an elongate bristle appressed to the furrow of the palea; perennial from knotty rhizomes, with solid culms, broad, flat lvs, short, membranous ligule, and narrow, few-fld panicles of readily deciduous spikelets. Monotypic.