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Spikelets several–many-flowered, lightly laterally compressed, disarticulating above the glumes and between the florets; glumes 1–3-nerved, dorsally rounded or lightly keeled, subequal to unequal, persistent, shorter than the lemmas; lemmas 3(5)-nerved, membranous to coriaceous, elliptic to ovate, sometimes deeply concave, lightly keeled at first but becoming dorsally broadly rounded as the caryopsis expands, glabrous or appressed-pilose on the flanks, glabrous or villous on the margins and sometimes also on the midnerve, obtuse, sometimes mucronate.
Inflorescence rarely a panicle, more often of open or dense racemes, these disposed along an axis or digitate, the spikelets subsessile or pedicelled.
Caryopsis broadly elliptic to subrotund, strongly flattened, concavo-convex, smooth or ± rugulose, the pericarp free.
