Annuals. Leaf-blades broadly linear to narrowly lanceolate; ligule a very short hairy membrane. Inflorescence a panicle. Spikelets elliptic, dorsally compressed; lower glume ovate, up to 1/3 the length of the spikelet and clasping its base; upper glume about as long as the spikelet; lower floret sterile, represented by a membranous lemma as long as the spikelet and abruptly terminating in a short awn; upper lemma thinly chartaceous, acute, dull, its flat thin margins enfolding and concealing the palea. Caryopsis subglobose.
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