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Annuals or perennials. Racemes mostly in pairs, terminal or arranged in a spatheate false panicle. Sessile spikelet: callus acute to pungent, long; lower glume with a narrow median groove; lower floret reduced to a hyaline lemma; upper floret bisexual; upper lemma 2-lobed with a terminal bigeniculate awn. Pedicellate spikelet male or sterile, much longer than the sessile spikelet. Worldwide: 5 species in tropical and South Africa Malawi: 3 taxa. |
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Species | FZ divisions | Content |
amplectens (Nees) Clayton var. catangensis (Chiov.) Clayton | N,C,S | Description |
amplectens (Nees) Clayton var. amplectens | S | Description |
filifolius (Nees) Clayton | C | Description |
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