Dregeochloa

Perennial, tufted, with short branched rhizomes, often forming low cushions. Leaf blade linear or ovate-lanceolate to ovate, usually folded, sometimes rigid or succulent; ligule a minute fringe of hairs. Inflorescence usually a single raceme, rarely a dense, contracted panicle; spikelets solitary, on hairy pedicels. Spikelet 10-15 mm long, +/- laterally compressed, lanceolate, disarticulating above glumes; glumes +/- equal, as long as to longer than spikelet, similar, lanceolate to broadly lanceolate, membranous, rounded, flat or with more than one keel, 5-7-nerved, minutely hairy, acute, awnless. Florets 3-9; bisexual; uppermost floret reduced and sterile; lemma similar in texture to glumes, membranous, 7-9-nerved, hairy, hairs in tufts or not tufted, mixed, tufts usually in a transverse row at base of lobes with 1 or 2 larger marginal tufts below these, 2-lobed, lobes triangular, acute or nerve excurrent into an awn (bristle), central awn geniculate, loosely twisted in lower third, +/- as long as body of lemma; callus long, narrowly obtuse, hairy; palea hyaline (thinner than lemma), narrow-elliptic, rounded to emarginate, 2-keeled, 2-nerved, nerves prominent, hairy in upper half. Lodicules 2, glabrous. Stamens 3. Ovary glabrous; styles short, shortly plumose. Fruit an achene with free pericarp. x= 7.