Commemorating Karl von Zois, (1756–1800), a plant collector from Carniola,Austria.

Low perennials with creeping rhizomes or stolons. Leaves with blades short and narrow, rolled in bud. Ligule a membrane or fringe of hairs. Inflorescence a slender raceme. Spikelets laterally flattened, closely pressed to the stem, spike-like, narrow. Floret 1, bisexual, enclosed by upper glume, disarticulating whole. Glumes one per spikelet, unequal, lower glume nerveless, upper glume folded and ridged, the lower edges united, 1-nerved. Lemma hidden inside the glume, 1-nerved. Palea if present 1- nerved or nerveless.

Seed.

Creeping rhizomatous plants with short leaf blades, the inflorescences very narrow with 1-flowered spikelets.

About 10 species from SE Asia to New Zealand. Mostly from coastal, saline areas.

Source: Spencer, R.; Aldous, D.; Stajsic, V.; McGeary, D (2005). Poaceae. In: Spencer, R.. Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 5. Flowering plants. Monocotyledons. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.