Grass Genera of the World - Chusquea Kunth Grass Genera of the World L. Watson and M. J. Dallwitz Chusquea Kunth Including Dendragrostis Jackson, Rettbergia Raddi Excluding Swallenochloa Habit, vegetative morphology . The flowering culms leafy. Culm nodes glabrous.
Culm sheaths persistent, or deciduous in their entirety.
Unicaespitose, or pluricaespitose. Rhizomes pachymorph, or leptomorph. Plants conspicuously armed, or unarmed. Young shoots extravaginal. Reproductive organization .