Annuals, caespitose, bisexual. Leaves: sheath margins joined for up to 2/3 their length; ligule an eciliate membrane. Inflorescences paniculate, secund. Spikelets in pedunculate groups of 1 or 2 bisexual and (1–) 3–5 sterile, sometimes also 1 male, falling as a unit. Sterile spikelets pedicellate with 5–11 awnless, truncate lemmas. Bisexual spikelets pedicellate, laterally compressed, 2-flowered, with 1 bisexual floret and an apical sterile lemma reduced to an awn; pedicel villous; glumes 2, ±equal, awned or acuminate to shortly aristate, keeled, 1-nerved; callus short; lemma 1-awned, dorsally rounded, 4 or 5-nerved. Male spikelet when present similar in appearance to bisexual spikelet. Lodicules glabrous. Stamens 3. Ovary glabrous. Hilum short, elliptic.
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