Tripogonella

Tufted annuals or perennials. Leaf-blades flat or inrolled; ligules membranous. Inflorescence a spike, the spikelets somewhat recessed, arranged in two rows along one side of the rachis. Spikelets dorsally compressed, the uppermost male or sterile, breaking up at maturity; glumes 2, 1-nerved (or the upper sometimes 3- or 5-nerved, subequal or the lower shorter, membranous, persistent; lemma 3-nerved, membranous to firm, dorsally rounded or weakly keeled, shallowly bilobed at the apex, the midnerve (and occasional lateral nerves) exserted as a short awn or mucro; palea shorter than lemma.