Karroochloa

Perennial or annual, tufted, sometimes stoloniferous or rhizomatous. Leaf blade narrow, expanded, flat or rolled; ligule a fringe of hairs. Inflorescence a dense, contracted panicle; spikelets solitary. Spikelet 4.0-7.0 mm long, laterally compressed, acute, disarticulating above glumes and between florets; glumes +/- equal, as long as spikelet, membranous, margins and apices hyaline, glabrous, 3-5(7)-nerved, awnless. Florets 3-7; lower florets bisexual; uppermost florets reduced; lemma similar in texture to glumes, membranous, margins and apex hyaline, broadly elliptic or ovate; rounded on back, 9-nerved, scabrid, hairy, hairs in fringes, tufts or in rows, usually across middle of back or margins especially in lower half, 2-lobed, lobes awnless or awned; awn fine, straight; central awn from between lobes, awn as long as to longer than body of lemma, geniculate, twisted in lower part; callus short, blunt, hairy; palea membranous, margins narrowly hyaline, glabrous or shortly pilose, prominently 2-keeled, 2-nerved, nerves ciliate, lower part glabrous or pilose. Lodicules 2, cuneate. Stamens 3. Ovary obovoid, glabrous; styles 2, terminal, short, plumose. x= 6 (polyploidy).