Raddia Bertol.

Plants monoecious, the staminate and pistillate spikelets in small separate in-florescences, the staminate terminal and axillary, the pistillate all axillary from the middle and upper nodes; staminate spikelets lanceolate, acute or acuminate, the glumes and sterile lemma wanting; first glume of pistillate spikelet wanting; second glume and sterile lemma membranaceous, equal, acute or acuminate; fruit sessile, indurate, the margins of the lemma firmly enclosing the palea.