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Racemes in pairs, terminal or arranged in a scanty spatheate false panicle, rarely solitary, clearly exserted from the spatheoles; peduncles much longer than the racemes, erect at maturity; internodes and pedicels linear, long-ciliate on both margins with ± ascending hairs.
Sessile spikelet dorsally compressed, lanceolate; callus very pointed; inferior glume with a narrow median groove, coriaceous; inferior floret reduced to a hyaline lemma; superior floret bisexual, its lemma bilobed with a terminal awn; awn bigeniculate, shortly pilose.
Annuals or caespitose perennials, often glaucous and tinged with red; culms not branched; ligules truncate; leaf laminas tapering to a fine point.
Pedicelled spikelet male or sterile, much longer than the sessile spikelet, dark red, coriaceous.
