Manual of the New Zealand Flora.

Tribe II. Zoysieæ

Tribe II. Zoysieæ.

Spikelets usually 1-flowered, solitary or in clusters on the rhachis of a spike or raceme. Flowering glumes membranous, never awned, usually smaller than the outer glumes.

Small creeping usually maritime grass. Leaves short, rigid. Spike short, stiff. Spikelets appressed to the rhachis 2. Zoysia.