Dioecious; staminate spikelets several to many-flowered, sessile, somewhat dis-tant on opposite sides of the rachis, forming a terminal loose spike, the florets closely imbricate; glumes shorter than the first floret; lemmas 3-nerved, acute, awnless; pistillate spikelets in the axils of the leaves, single or in fascicles of 3 or 4, terete, somewhat curved, acuminate, consisting of 1-3 florets imbedded in the spongy tissue of the thickened rachilla, only the summit of the floret free; style and base of stigma elongate, 2-lobed.
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