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Annuals or perennials. Inflorescence a panicle, often with whorled primary branches. Spikelets nearly always glabrous, awnless. Ligule a line of hairs. Inflorescence an open or contracted panicle. Spikelets 1-flowered. Glumes membranous, the upper usually longer than the lower. Lemma 1(-3)-nerved, without awns, usually shining; palea as long as lemma or a little shorter. Grain with free pericarp. Fruit rounded or truncate at tip, not beaked. Sporobolus species may resemble species of Eragrostis but are always 1-flowered whereas Eragrostis species have more than 1 floret per spikelet. Worldwide: c. 160 species in the tropics and subtropics Mozambique: 23 taxa. |
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Species | FZ divisions | Content |
acinifolius Stapf | ||
africanus (Poir.) A. Robyns & Tournay | ||
centrifugus (Trin.) Nees | ||
congoensis Franch. | MS | |
consimilis Fresen. | Z,T,GI,M | Image |
cordofanus (Steud.) Coss. | T | |
festivus Hochst. ex A. Rich. | N,Z,T,MS,GI | Image |
fimbriatus (Trin.) Nees | N,Z,MS,GI,M | |
ioclados (Trin.) Nees | T,MS,GI,M | |
mauritianus (Steud.) T. Durand & Schinz | ||
micranthus (Steud.) T. Durand & Schinz | ||
molleri Hack. | N,T | Description, Image |
myrianthus Benth. | ||
nitens Stent | ||
panicoides A. Rich. | N,T,M | Description, Image |
piliferus (Trin.) Kunth | ||
pyramidalis P. Beauv. | N,T,MS,GI,M | Description, Image |
sanguineus Rendle | N,Z,MS | Description, Image |
stapfianus Gand. | T,MS,M | Description, Image |
subtilis Kunth | MS,GI,M | Description, Image |
tenuissimus (Schrank) Kuntze | ||
virginicus (L.) Kunth | GI | Image |
welwitschii Rendle |
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