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Spikelets strictly 1-flowered, or with a rhachilla extension terminating in a minute long-awned vestigial floret, strongly laterally compressed, sessile, alternate in 2 rows on a tough axis, disarticulating above the glumes; glumes subequal, 1-nerved, membranous, keeled, as long as the spikelet, divergent, acute to shortly awned; lemma shorter than the glumes, membranous, becoming chartaceous or cartilaginous, ciliate on the nerves, minutely 2-toothed at the apex, with a long fine flexuous awn from the sinus, the awns at length beautifully braided.
Inflorescence of (1)2–4 digitate unilateral racemes bearing imbricate spikelets on a flat rhachis.
Caryopsis narrowly ellipsoid to obovoid, dorsally rounded or flattened.
