Sartidia

Perennial, densely tufted, rhizomatous. Leaf blade often rolled, reddish brown when dry; ligule a dense fringe of hairs. Inflorescence a panicle, erect, narrow, usually interrupted, branches solitary or paired; spikelets solitary, pedicelled. Spikelet not noticeably compressed, disarticulating above glumes; glumes +/- equal, narrow, acute to acuminate, flat to rounded on back, with or without apical awns, glabrous; lower glume usually 3-nerved; upper glume 3-5-nerved, nerves evanescent. Floret l, bisexual; lemma firmer than glumes, coriaceous, subcylindrical, somewhat dorsiventrally compressed, slightly tapering upwards, grooved ventrally with involute margins, glabrous and smooth or scabrid, 3-nerved, without an articulation, 3-awned; awns glabrous or scabrid, spreading, collectively laxly spirally contorted at base when mature, column, when present, somewhat twisted; callus well developed, acute, obtuse or shallowly bifid, densely but shortly hairy; palea small, scale-like, not indurated, usually coriaceous below, 2-keeled, 2-nerved, apex obtuse. Lodicules 2, membranous, +/- as long as palea, many-nerved. Stamens 3. Ovary glabrous; styles distinct, plumose. Caryopsis dorsiventrally compressed, with deep ventral groove. x= 11.