Homozeugos Stapf

Tufted perennials. Leaf-blades linear or terete; ligule short, or long and adnate to sheath-auricles. Inflorescence composed of 1–6 digitate racemes, terminal on the culm; racemes villous, bearing paired spikelets on a fragile rhachis, those of each pair alike; internodes and pedicels linear. Spikelets terete, the callus sharply conical to pungent; lower glume coriaceous, convex across the back, ± 2-keeled towards the tip, obtuse; lower floret reduced to a hyaline lemma; upper lemma membranous, linear, bidentate, with ± hairy awn from the sinus; palea minute. Caryopsis narrowly lanceolate.