Citation: Nees, in Lindley, Nal. Syst. Bot. edn 2:448 (1836).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Tufted perennials, with usually branched culms; leaf blades flat or folded, ligule a ciliate membrane.

Inflorescence of spikes arranged digitately; spikelets of 1 bisexual floret and 1 or 2 reduced florets, sessile, arranged in 2 rows on one side of the rhachis of the spikes; glumes 2, unequal, 1-nerved, keeled; fertile lemma dorsally compressed, 3-nerved, glabrous, with a straight terminal awn; upper florets smaller, lacking paleas, awned; callus bearded.

Distribution:  12 species from Africa, Europe, Asia and Australia; 6 in Australia. (Lazarides (1972) Aust. J. Bot. suppl, ser. 5; Simon (1984) Austrobaileya 2:1-6).

Biology: No text

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