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The first glume is coriaceous, oblong or lanceolate, convex more or less, marginally winged above the middle, truncate or two-cuspidate at the apex and awnless.

From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.

Panicle spreading, even in fruit, the drooping peduncles little branched; spikelets oblong-ovate, turgid, smooth, of 8–10 rather distant flowers; glume rather longer than the palet, short-awned or awnless; sheaths nearly glabrous.—Too common in wheat-fields.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

Dinebra.Spikes panicled, filiform, spikelets very minute one-or more-flowered, glumes awnless.

From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.

The pedicelled spikelets are usually smaller than the sessile and have three or four glumes and are awnless.

From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.

Glumes membranaceous, shorter than the flowers; flowering glume and palet awnless, the glume ovate, keeled, larger than the palet.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa