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Annual or perennial herbs. Culms ± triangular, leafy. Leaves linear to narrowly oblong. Sheaths closed. Spikelets bearing flowers of one or both sexes; the bisexual spikelets with one basal female and 1-few males above; female spikelet with 1 basal female and 1-2 empty scales or none, above; male spikelets with 1-numerous male flowers. Flowers unisexual, solitary in axils of the glumes, the lower 2-4 glumes empty. Perianth bristles 0. Male flowers consisting of 1-3 stamens. Female flowers with 3 stigmas, not enclosed in a utricle. Nutlet often white, grey or ± black, borne on a hypogynium. Hypogynium often triangular, widened out into a simple or 3-lobed disk or (rarely) a cupule or almost 0. Comment: The exact occurrence of species in this genus is as yet unknown and the list is incomplete. Many of the species are listed solely on the basis of Malawi being cited in the distribution of the species in Flora of Tropical East Africa. Worldwide: 200 species in tropical and warm regions Malawi: 20 taxa. |
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| bulbifera Hochst. ex A.Rich. | Description, Image | |
| delicatula Nelmes | ||
| distans Poir. | Description, Image | |
| dregeana Kunth | Description, Image | |
| erythrorrhiza Ridl. | Description, Image | |
| flexuosa Boeckeler | Description, Image | |
| foliosa Hochst. ex A.Rich. | Description, Image | |
| glabra Boeck. | Description, Image | |
| griegifolia (Ridl.) C.B. Clarke | Description, Image | |
| lagoensis Boeckeler | Description, Image | |
| longispiculata Nelmes | Description, Image | |
| melanomphala Kunth | Description, Image | |
| nyasensis C.B. Clarke | S | Description, Image |
| pooides Ridl. | Description, Image | |
| pulchella Ridl. | ||
| racemosa Poir. | Description, Image | |
| rehmannii C.B. Clarke | Description, Image | |
| richardsiae E.A. Rob. | ||
| welwitschii C.B. Clarke | Description, Image | |
| woodii C.B.Clarke var. woodii Napper | Description, Image |
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