In Hooker’s Ic. Pl. 25, t 2448 (1896); Gen. Gram.: 212 (1986).- Type-species: Halopyrum mucronatum (Linn.) Stapf
Description:
* Perennial with robust stolons. Leaves narrow, stiff; ligule a ciliate rim.
* Inflorescence of short racemes scattered along and appressed to an elongated axis. Spikelets shortly pedicelled
* Spikelets large, several-flowered, laterally compressed, disarticulating above the glumes and between the florets, internodes small; callus conspicuously barbate with hairs of about half the length of the lemmas. Glumes persistant, subequal, the lower 3-5-nerved, the upper 5-7-nerved. Lemmas excerted from the glumes, 3-nerved, coriaceous, dorsally rounded or keeled above the middle, acute or subobtuse, shortly mucronate.
A genus with a single species on the shores of the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea.