pterostachys

pterostachys
  Gk pteron, wing or feather-like; stachys, spike as of an ear of wheat. The clusters of sterile lemmas projecting from the florets render the spicate inflorescence a wing-like appearance

Etymological dictionary of grasses . . 2012.

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