Rev. Gram. 1: 156 (1829); Gen. Gram.: 254 (1986).- Type-species: Leptothrium rigidum Kunth.
Latipes Kunth, Rév. Gram. 1: 261 (1830).
Description:
* Perennials or annuals with narrow leaves.
* Inflorescence a loose many-sided false raceme; spikelets solitary or paired, falling together with the enlarged common peduncle.
* Spikelets linear to lanceolate, awnless. Glumes well developed, longer than the floret which is tightly enclosed within the upper glume, dissimilar, coriaceous, smooth or tuberculate-spinulose; lower glume (one if in a pair) modified into a long flat recurved tail, the upper tightly enfolding the floret. Lemma 1-nerved, thinly membranous, acute.
The genus has 2 species, bushlands.