Setaria P.Beauv.

17 species in Aust. (7 native, 10 naturalized); all states an territories

Spikelets with 1 terminal bisexual floret and sometimes a male floret below it, surrounded by numerous bristles, disarticulating below the glumes; awns absent. Inflorescence a cylindrical, dense or interrupted spike-like (rarely spreading) panicle.