Olyra

Female spikelet on clavate pedicels, dorsiventrally compressed; glumes unequal or +/- equal, equal to longer than spikelet, ovate to lanceolate, herbaceous, 5-9-nerved, cross-veined, acuminate, awned; awn flexuous, longer than glume, up to 20 mm long. Floret 1; lemma becoming indurated, crustaceous, white, shining, ovate, elliptic or lanceolate, convex, dorsally obtuse, entire, awnless; callus 0; palea similar to lemma. Lodicules 3, truncate, cuneate. Stamens 0. Ovary +/- ellipsoid, acuminate, glabrous; styles connate at base or beyond middle; stigmas plumose. x= 7, 10, 11 (polyploidy).