Flora of New Zealand Series

Type species: S. ramosa (Makino) Makino

Small with rhizomes moderately to strongly monopodially branching, often forming large stands. Culms dense or diffuse, slender, erect from the base; nodes solid; internodes terete, thick-walled. Culm-sheaths deciduous, often tardily so, concolorous. Branches 1, rarely 2-3, at nodes, concentrated in middle and lower part of culm. Oral bristles of leaf-sheath scabrid at base, smooth above. Leaf-blade prominently tessellate. Inflorescence paniculate. Spikelets 5-10. Glumes 2. Lodicules 3. Stamens 6. Stigmas 3.

13 spp. from Japan. Naturalised sp. 1.