Fl. Bad. 1: 8 (1805); Gram. Afr. Trop. 1: 174 (1962); Gen. Gram.: 96 (1986).- Type-species : Vulpia myuros (Linn.) Gmelin
Description:
* Annuals with erect or geniculately ascending weak culms.
* Inflorescence a narrow panicle or racemes.
* Spikelets several-flowered, disarticulating below each fertile floret ans sometimes also below pedicel ; floret-callus glabrous. Glumes very unequal, the lower minute, the upper acute to awned. Lemmas thinly coriaceous, rounded or occasionally keeled, faintly 5-nerved, narrow, tapering into a long straight awn.
Genus with 22 species, temperate and subtropical regions of northern hemisphere, introduced elsewhere.