Inflorescence a solitary raceme bearing pectinate spikelets on a puberulous rhachis.Spikelets 2-flowered, laterally compressed, sessile, alternate in 2 rows on a tough axis, tardily disarticulating above the glumes but not between the florets; glumes dissimilar, subequal in length, the inferior 1-nerved, minutely 2-toothed at the apex with an awnlet in the sinus, the superior nerveless, with an oblique dorsal awn; inferior floret fertile; fertile lemma hyaline, pilose on the keel and ciliate on the lateral nerves, 2-toothed at the apex and mucronulate; superior floret male, its lemma glabrous, awned from the back; rhachilla terminated by a cluster of sterile awns usually accompanied by a very reduced lemma.