Spikelets unisexual, monoecious; the staminate 2-fiowered in pairs, one sessile the other pedicellate, along the numerous branches of a terminal panicle; the pistillate 1-fiowered, sessile, crowded in several rows, along a much thickened continuous axis arising from the lower leaf- axils and closely enveloped by numerous large foliaceous bracts. Glumes four, awnless; those of the staminate spikelet acute; those of the pistillate very broad and obt.use or emarginate. Grain hard, only partially inclosed by the fruiting glumes.
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E. M. East (1911) studied this question.