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Spikelets falling entire, 1-to 2-flowered, the florets distant, the second rudi-mentary; glumes acuminate, awnless, the first narrow, 3-nerved, the second broad-er, 5-nerved; lemma acuminate, awn-pointed, 5-nerved, the nerves obscure except near the summit.
Spikelets 1–5-flowered, laterally compressed, falling entire at maturity; rhachilla adnate to the keels of the palea towards its base; florets glabrous, hermaphrodite, the uppermost smaller; lemmas 5–7-nerved, awnless; stamens 2–3.
Glumes equal in size or the inferior one slightly shorter, keeled, 3-5-nerved, membranous to chartaceous, acute; the inferior narrowly to broadly lanceolate; the superior broadly lanceolate to lanceolate-oblong.
Lemmas 5-7-nerved, somewhat keeled or dorsally rounded, membranous to cartilaginous, elliptic or ovate-elliptic if expanded, acute or subobtuse, sometimes mucronulate; the lateral nerves usually faint.
Paleas slightly shorter than the corresponding lemmas, 2-4-nerved, 2-keeled, laterally compressed, the keels close together, scaberulous along the keels.
Caryopsis free, laterally compressed, obliquely elliptic-oblong in outline; embryo c. 1/4 the size of the caryopsis; hilum very minute, basal.
Ovary glabrous; styles distinct; stigmas plumose, laterally exserted.
Leaf-laminae with a short pseudopetiole; venation tessellate.
Lodicules 2, minute, cuneate, apex truncate, glabrous.
A perennial grass with erect or ascending culms.
Stamens 2-3; anthers narrowly oblong.
Ligule membranous, truncate, short.
Inflorescences loose open panicles.
