Tarigidia

Perennial, tufted, glaucous. Leaf blade linear, long, flat; ligule an unfringed membrane. Inflorescence a spike-like, cylindrical, contracted panicle, rarely with lower branches shortly produced, hairy; spikelets shortly pedicelled, clustered, or usually in pairs on lower branches. Spikelet 4.0-4.5 mm long, dorsiventrally compressed, narrowly elliptic, subacute to acute, falling with glumes; glumes +/- equal, +/- two-thirds length of spikelet, acuminate, awnless; lower glume 1-nerved, hairy or glabrous except near margins; upper glume 3-nerved, hairy. Florets 2; lower floret reduced to a lemma, 5-7-nerved, hairy with long, spreading hairs between nerves and near margins; upper floret bisexual, lemma +/- as long as lower lemma, similar in texture to glumes, chartaceous, glabrous, without median keel, rounded on back, at least at base, margins lying flat and exposed on palea, awnless; palea equalling lemma, chartaceous, 2-nerved. Lodicules minute, cuneate. Stamens 3. Ovary glabrous; styles connate at base, plumose.