Coelachyrum Hochst. & Nees

Inflorescence rarely a panicle, more often of open or dense racemes, these disposed along an axis or digitate, the spikelets subsessile or pedicelled. Spikelets several–many-flowered, lightly laterally compressed, disarticulating above the glumes and between the florets; glumes persistent, shorter than the lemmas; lemmas membranous to coriaceous, elliptic to ovate, sometimes deeply concave, lightly keeled at first but becoming dorsally broadly rounded as the caryopsis expands. Caryopsis broadly elliptic to subrotund, strongly flattened, concavo-convex, smooth or ± rugulose, the pericarp free.

Worldwide: 7 species in Africa, Arabia and Pakistan.

Botswana: 1 taxon.