Robust, reed-like herbs. Stem enclosed to up or near the panicle by closed leaf-sheaths. Leaves spread, lanceolate or linear from a tapering base, herbaceous but hard and stiffish; the transverse veinlets rather distant. Panicle broad, rather lax, pubescent. Flowers solitary, distant, small, ☿. Bracts minute, deciduous. Perianth small, calycine. Tepals of about equal length, the outer ovate, acute, inner oblong, obtuse or rounded. Stamens 6 (occasionally 1 aborted?); anthers with a bifid base. Ovary conic; style none or very short; stigmas 3, linear, rather long. Drupe broadly ovoid-globose; exocarp thin, succulent; endocarp bony, 2-3-seeded. Seeds globose or ovoid, testa membranous.
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