Harpochloa Kunth

Spikelets 2–4-flowered, sessile, alternate in 2 rows on a tough axis, disarticulating above the glumes but not between the florets; glumes unequal, the inferior shorter than the superior, membranous, keeled, the superior firmer in texture, deciduous, as long as the spikelet, dorsally rounded; lowermost floret fertile; fertile lemma laterally compressed, cartilaginous, bidenticulate, awnless; distal florets male or sterile, the third and fourth enclosed within the second, all awnless.