Schlechtendalia 25: 57-61(2013).- Type-species: Trisetopsis elongatum Wölk & Röser.
Description:
* Perennials.
* Inflorescence a narrow and often erect, panicle.
* Spikelets 2-6-flowered, laterally flattened, disarticulating above the glumes and between the florets; lowermost florets bisexual, upper reduced. Glumes unequal, persistent, keeled, acute to acuminate; lower glume shorter, 1-3-nerved; upper 3-5-nerved. Lemmas exserted from the glumes, 5-11-nerved, dorsally awned, apically deeply 2-fid, sometimes the lobes with apical bristles.
A tropical and subtropical African and Arabian genus with 24 species.