Spikelets unisexual, 1-flowered, in pairs, one pistillate, sessile, the other stami-nate, long-pedicellate, appressed along the panicle branches; staminate spikelets small; glumes unequal, the first shorter, 1-nerved, the second about as long as the floret, 3-nerved; lemma acute or subacute; stamens 6; pistillate spikelet large, terete; glumes short and acuminate to nearly as long as the floret, 3-to several-nerved; lemma becoming indurate with a minute beak, straight or curved, partly to almost completely covered on the back with uncinate hairs, the margins in-rolled, tightly enclosing the palea; stigmas 3.
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