- Tribe characteristics
- spikes or spicate racemes or racemes (Brachypodium)
- florets 2 or more/ spikelet (except Hordeum)
- reduced floret at spikelet apex
- glumes short or long
- lemmas awnless or awned, veins 5 or more
- florets 2 or more/ spikelet (except Hordeum)