Streptochaeta

• Authority

  Hitchcock, Albert S. 1927. The grasses of Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 24: i-xx, 291-556.

• Family

  Poaceae

• Scientific Name

  Streptochaeta

• Description

  Description - Spikelets 1-flowered, terete, disarticulating below the glumes; empty bractlets (probably glumes and sterile lemmas) 4, much shorter than the spikelet, more or less toothed; lemma coriaceous, gradually narrowed into a long much contorted awn; palea shorter than the lemma, bifid nearly to the base, coriaceous; inner bracts (lodicules) 3, less coriaceous than the lemma, longer than the palea, imbricate; stamens 6, monadelphous, the tube about as long as the lemma; style 1, as long as the stamen tube, the slender stigmas 3.- Broad-leaved perennials with the spikelets in elongate spikes. The long contorted awns are implicate, remaining attached at the apex of the axis, the spikelets hanging down.