Molinia Schrank

Perennial. Culms tufted, internodes unequal, the lowest short, clavately swollen and persisting for several years. Leaves all in lower part of culm, leaf sheaths longer than internodes; leaf blades linear, articulated with sheath; ligule a line of hairs. Inflorescence an open or contracted panicle. Spikelets weakly laterally compressed, florets 2 to several, disarticulating above glumes and between florets; rachilla internodes slender, usually 1/3–1/2 length of lemma; glumes shorter than lowest lemma, 1–3-veined; floret callus truncate, glabrous or bearded; lemmas papery, 3(–5)-veined, glabrous, apex acute; palea almost as long as lemma, keels ciliolate or glabrous.