Heteropholis C.E.Hubb.

Annuals or perennials. Leaf-blades flat; ligule shortly membranous. Inflorescence a single raceme, these both terminal and axillary; racemes cylindrical or slightly compressed; internodes thickened, clavate, fused to the adjacent pedicel. Sessile spikelet ± embedded in the internode; callus truncate, with prominent central peg; lower glume coriaceous, broadly convex, 2-keeled or sharply involute along the sides, muricate, winged at the tip; lower floret reduced to a hyaline lemma; upper lemma entire and awnless. Caryopsis ellipsoid, dorsally flattened. Pedicelled spikelet thinly coriaceous, about the same size as the sessile or smaller; pedicel oblong, flattened.