Perennials. Inflorescence a solitary raceme enclosed by a boat-shaped reddish spatheole and grouped into a loose compound panicle; raceme dense without homogamous pairs. Sessile spikelets dorsally
flattened; callus obtuse; lower glume not grooved; upper
glume awned; lower floret reduced to a hyaline lemma; upper
floret 2-lobed with glabrous awn. Pedicellate spikelets resembling the sessile but awnless.