Description
Annuals or perennials. Inflorescence a cylindric to subspherical, spike-like panicle, bearing deciduous clusters of 1-several spikelets subtended by an involucre of bristles, these flexuous, filiform and free to base. Spikelets: glumes and lower lemma variable, 0 to as long as spikelet; upper lemma cartilaginous to thinly coriaceous with flat thin margins.
