Sp. PI. 76 (1753); Gen. Gram.: 144(1986).- Type-species: Bromus secalinus Linn.
Deescription:
* Annuals or perennials. Leaves linear, flat ; sheaths often hairy, tubular, soon splitting.
* Inflorescence a large effuse and nodding or contracted and erect panicle with crowded spikelets.
* Spikelets large, lanceolate or wedge-shaped. Glumes unequal, narrow, herbaceous. Lemmas herbaceous with scarious margins and tip, back keeled or ounded, often bidentate, usually with a straight or recurving subapical awn, rarely muticous.
Large genus with more than 150 species , mainly of temperate regions and tropical mountains.