Manual of the New Zealand Flora.
Tribe 1. AndropogoneÆ
Tribe 1. AndropogoneÆ.
Spikelets usually 1-flowered, generally in pairs, rarely in threes or solitary, on the rhachis of a spike or branches of a panicle, all hermaphrodite or some of them male, in the latter case so placed that a male spikelet stands by the side of a hermaphrodite one. Flowering glumes hyaline, often awned, usually much smaller than the empty ones.
Panicle long, dense, cylindrical. Spikelets awnless, almost concealed by long silky hairs | 1. Imperata. |