Monocymbium Stapf

Perennials. Leaf-blades linear; ligule scarious, very short. Inflorescence composed of solitary racemes, these densely spiculate, shorter than and enclosed by the cymbiform spatheole, loosely gathered into a false panicle; internodes and pedicels short, filiform, ciliate. Sessile spikelet dorsally compressed; callus obtuse, applied obliquely to summit of the internode; lower glume coriaceous, broadly convex with rounded sides; upper glume awned; lower floret reduced to a hyaline lemma; upper lemma hyaline, bilobed, passing between the lobes into an awn with glabrous column. Caryopsis oblong, slightly dorsally compressed. Pedicelled spikelet ♂, resembling the sessile but awnless, with a distinct callus.