Entolasia Stapf

Perennials. Leaf-blades flat or rolled; ligule represented by a line of hairs. Inflorescence composed of racemes arranged along a central axis, the racemes sometimes compound; rhachis triquetrous, bearing the spikelets singly, the lower glume adaxial. Spikelets narrowly elliptic, dorsally compressed, glabrous, acute; lower glume small; upper glume as long as the spikelet, membranous; lower floret sterile, without a palea, its lemma resembling the upper glume; upper lemma coriaceous, pubescent, obtuse to subacute, its margins inrolled and clasping only the edges of the obtuse to subacute palea. Caryopsis elliptic, dorsally compressed.