Lintonia Stapf

Stoloniferous perennials. Leaf-blades linear, flat, tapering to a fine acuminate tip; ligule membranous, truncate. Inflorescence composed of several slender racemes arranged digitately at the top of the culm or scattered along a central axis. Spikelets several-flowered, plump, subsessile or shortly pedicelled, disarticulating above the glumes but not between the florets; glumes persistent, membranous, unequal, shorter than the lemmas; lemmas broad, rounded on the back, 5–11-nerved with the nerves slightly shorter than the lemma, tough and cartilaginous at least in part, appressed villous with the hairs usually ± concentrated in 3–6 longitudinal rows, the central nerve extended into a stout awn or awn-point normally arising from the back below the emarginate or 2-lobed tip, rarely arising from the sinus. Grain smooth, light brown, strongly dorso-ventrally flattened, enclosed within a free hyaline pericarp