Bull. Mus. Hist. Paris, sér. 2, 22: 404 (1950); Gen. Gram.: 357 (1986).- Type-species: Parahyparrhenia jaegeriana A.Camus (= P. annua)
Description:
* Annuals or perennials.
* Inflorescence a single or pair of racemes, terminal and axillary, forming a compound panicle. Raceme fairly long, the homogamous spikelets inconspicuous; bases terete, not deflexed.
* Sessile spikelet callus acute to pungent. Lower glume with a dep median groove, often awned. Upper lemma bi-dentate, bearing a stout hairy awn. Pedicelled spikelet as long as sessile, with or without a callus.
Small genus with 5 species in the NWT Africa region and southern Asia.