Tufted annuals to perennials. Leaf-blades flat or inrolled; ligules short, truncate. Inflorescence a dense, laterally compressed, distichous spike. Spikelets solitary along the rachis; 2(–3)-flowered; glumes narrow-linear, 1-veined; lemma 5-nerved, keeled, long-awned, with conspicuous stiff hairs along the margins. Palea hyaline.
3 species, or 1 species with 3 subspecies, depending on the treatment followed; 1 cultivated in Australia, occasionally establishing outside cultivation but rarely persisting.
Source:
Walsh, N.G. (1994). Poaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 2, Ferns and Allied Plants, Conifers and Monocotyledons, pp. 356–627. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
