Gynerium Bonpl.

Dioecious; staminate spikelets 2-flowered; glumes equal, 1-nerved, acute, thin and hyaline; lemmas 3-nerved, acute, glabrous, awnless; pistillate spikelets 2-flowered; first glume 1-to 3-nerved, acute, thin and hyaline, the second 3-nerved, firmer, narrower, more than twice as long as the first; rachilla glabrous, disartic-ulating at the base of each segment; lemmas small, attenuate to a long soft awn, villous with long white hairs.