Phyllorachis

Perennial grasses, sometimes of shrubby habit, with branched slender culms. Leaf blade lanceolate, narrowly elliptic to oblong-lanceolate; ligule small, ciliate. Inflorescence spike-like, terminal, consisting of short racemes inserted along a leaf-like rachis; axillary inflorescences all bisexual; racemes short, usually not more than 1 or 2; spikelets longer than those of terminal inflorescences, with elongated stigmas protruding from subtending leafsheaths; terminal inflorescences bisexual, lowermost spikelet of each raceme female, the following male , sometimes reduced spikelets present; rachilla not extended. Male spikelets: lower glume rather narrow, almost subulate, acute; upper one 1-nerved, ovate-oblong, up to ? as long as spikelet; lemma of inferior floret 3-nerved, coriaceous; lemma of upper floret 5