Coix L.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1980, Flora Europaea. Volume 5. Alismataceae to Orchidaceae (Monocotyledones), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press : 267

154. Coix L. 1

Annuals. Leaves flat. Inflorescence of 3 spikelets, 1 female and 2 sterile,enclosed in a bony involucre, and a terminal spike of male spikelets. Male spikelets in groups of 2 or 3, dorsally compressed; glumes chartaceous; lemma and palea membranous; stamens 3. Female spikelets with suborbicular, beaked glumes and membranous lemma and palea. Lodicules absent.