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Spikelets in pairs, the sessile spikelets perfect, the pedicellate somewhat smaller, pistillate, the rachis finally disarticulating below the spikelets; glumes equal, in-durate, densely covered on the margins and on the back toward the summit with golden-brown silky hairs; fertile lemma awnless.
Spikelets alike (though pedicelled female and slightly smaller), paired, one sessile, one pedicelled, elliptic, barbate with rufous or tawny hairs from the callus.
Inflorescence a panicle, bearing short racemes appressed to its central axis; racemes dense, fragile, with clavate internodes.
Inferior glume chartaceous to coriaceous, broadly convex, copiously ciliate on the margins.
Inferior floret represented by a hyaline lemma.
Superior lemma entire, awnless; stamens 3.
