Fl. Cap. 7: 316 (1898); Gen. Gram.: 213 (1986).- Type-species: Leptocarydion vulpiastrum (De Not.) Stapf.
Description:
* Annuals. Leaves broad, flat; ligules a short ciliate, fringed membrane.
* Inflorescence densely spiciform, the numerous slender racemes crowded along the rhachis, with spikelets crowded.
* Spikelets with 6-14 fertile florets and additional distal sterile ones; callus hairy. Glumes persistent, narrow, shorter than spikelet. Lemmas exserted from the glumes, keeled, pubescent, entire or bidentate, awned from the apex or the sinus; stamens 2-3. Caryopsis linear.
Genus with one species of dry open places in the savannas of eastern and southern Africa.