Willkommia is a genus

Genus

In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...

 of grass in the Poaceae

Poaceae

The Poaceae is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of flowering plants. Members of this family are commonly called grasses, although the term "grass" is also applied to plants that are not in the Poaceae lineage, including the rushes and sedges...

family.
The following description

Habit

Annual (1), or perennial (3). Stolons absent (1), or present (3). Culms decumbent (1/1); 20–40–60 cm long; firm (3), or wiry (1); rooting from lower nodes (1/1). Ligule a ciliate membrane (1), or a fringe of hairs (3). Leaf-blades stiff (1), or firm (3). Leaf-blade margins cartilaginous (2/2).

Inflorescence

Inflorescence composed of racemes. Racemes borne along a central axis; unilateral. Rhachis flattened (2), or angular (2). Spikelet packing adaxial; 2 -rowed (1/1). Spikelets appressed (1), or ascending (3); solitary. Fertile spikelets sessile.

Fertile spikelets

Spikelets comprising 1 fertile florets; without rhachilla extension. Spikelets elliptic; dorsally compressed; 2.5–3.962–5 mm long; breaking up at maturity; disarticulating below each fertile floret. Floret callus brief (1), or elongated (3); pubescent (3/3); obtuse (1), or pungent (3).

Glumes

Glumes lower persistent, upper deciduous; reaching apex of florets (2), or exceeding apex of florets (2); firmer than fertile lemma. Lower glume lanceolate (2), or elliptic (1), or oblong (1); 0.5–0.6625–0.75 length of upper glume; hyaline; without keels; 0 -veined. Lower glume lateral veins absent. Lower glume surface without pits. Lower glume apex obtuse (2), or acute (2). Upper glume elliptic;
1–1.1–1.3 length of adjacent fertile lemma; hyaline (1), or chartaceous (3); without keels; 1 -veined. Upper glume surface smooth (2), or asperulous (2). Upper glume apex obtuse (1), or acute (3).

Florets

Fertile lemma elliptic; membranous; without keel; wingless; 3 -veined. Lemma surface unwrinkled; without grooves; glabrous (2), or pubescent (2), or pilose (1). Lemma margins eciliate (1), or ciliate (3). Lemma apex obtuse (1), or acute (3); mucronate (1), or awned (3); 1 -awned (3/3). Palea keels eciliate (3), or ciliate (1). Palea surface glabrous (3), or pilose (1).

External links

• Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora