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Annual. Leaf-blades linear, often falsely petiolate; ligule scarious. Inflorescence a large terminal panicle, the primary branches bearing spikelets at regular intervals, these all solitary and pedicelled. Spikelets dorsally compressed; callus obtuse; lower glume coriaceous, broadly rounded; lower floret reduced to a hyaline lemma; upper lemma hyaline, bidentate, with a bigeniculate glabrous awn from the sinus; palea hyaline, small. Caryopsis oblong.