Syntherisma

• 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

  Syntherisma

• Description

  Description - Spikelets in two's or three's, short-pedicellate in two rows along one side of a narrow rachis, the slender racemes digitate or subdigitate ; spikelets lanceolate or elliptic ; first glume minute or obsolete ; fruit acute, the lemma with narrow hyaline margins.