Coelorachis

• Authority

  Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.

• Family

  Poaceae

• Scientific Name

  Coelorachis

• Description

  Genus Description - Racemes spike-like, cartilaginous, cylindric, the rachis readily disarticulating, each internode thickened distally and concave at its summit; spikelets paired, the fertile one sessile, closely appressed to the hollow of the adjacent internode, its first glume coriaceous and pitted or wrinkled; sterile spikelet smaller, its stout pedicel appressed to the rachis; smooth perennials; growing in small tufts, the slender solitary racemes resembling the pistillate portion of Tripsacum. 12, mainly trop.