Loxodera Launert

Perennials. Leaf-blades flat; ligule membranous. Inflorescence a solitary raceme; raceme dorsally flattened, tardily disarticulating, stout; internodes narrowly oblong to clavate, pubescent to pilose, the top crateriform with a lobed scarious rim. Sessile spikelet narrowly ovate to narrowly oblong; callus oblique, broadly obtuse, bearded, inserted into the top of the internode, the hairs exserted to form a ring around each node; lower glume coriaceous, broadly convex, the margins sharply inflexed and becoming keeled towards the tip, at most ciliolate near the apex, usually with the nerves raised into longitudinal ridges, sometimes muricate on the sides, entire at the tip; upper glume awnless; lower floret ♂; upper lemma entire and awnless. Caryopsis ellipsoid. Pedicelled spikelet about as long as the sessile or much reduced, awnless or rarely awned.