Lagurus

Annual, tufted, softly and densely hairy. Leaf blade expanded, linear to narrowly lanceolate, velvety; sheaths softly pilose; ligule an unfringed or rarely a fringed membrane. Inflorescence a solitary, dense, globose to ovoid or oblong-cylindrical, spike-like panicle, softly hairy and long bristly; spikelets subsessile or pedicelled. Spikelet laterally compressed, disarticulating above glumes, rachilla extension present; glumes +/- equal, similar, thinly membranous, narrowly lanceolate, with long silky hairs, 1-nerved, long-acuminate, awned; awn fine, longer than glumes. Floret 1, bisexual; lemma membranous, shorter than glumes, lanceolate, rounded on back, hairy near base, 5-nerved, 2-lobed, 3-awned, each lobe awned with a fine straight awn; central awn longer than lemma, slightly geniculate, twisted; palea somewhat shorter than lemma, ovate, acuminate, 2-keeled. Lodicules 2, hyaline. Stamens 3. Ovary ellipsoid, glabrous; styles plumose. Caryopsis narrowly ellipsoid. x= 7.