Thelepogon Roth ex Roem. & Schult.

Annual. Leaf-blades broad; ligule shortly membranous. Inflorescence a terminal bunch of shortly pedunculate racemes; internodes thickened, clavate, glabrous. Sessile spikelet dorsally compressed; callus obtuse and fitting the concave top of the internode; lower glume crustaceous, convex, without keels or wings; upper glume broadly convex across the back, wingless; lower floret ♂, with hyaline lemma and well-developed palea; upper lemma bifid, passing between the teeth into a glabrous awn. Caryopsis ellipsoid. Pedicelled spikelet absent, represented only by a flattened linear pedicel.