Annuals, caespitose, bisexual. Ligule an eciliate membrane. Inflorescences paniculate, with conspicuously divaricate branchlets and numerous very small spikelets. Spikelets laterally compressed, disarticulating above glumes and between florets, with 2–7 bisexual florets; pedicel long, clavate; rachilla extension naked. Glumes 2, very unequal, shorter than adjacent lemma, emarginate or truncate or rounded, awnless, keeled; lower glume 1-nerved or nerveless; upper glume 1-nerved. Callus short. Lemmas awnless, keeled on all 3 nerves. Lodicules membranous. Stamens 3. Caryopsis oblong or ellipsoid; hilum short.
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