Annuals or perennials. Leaves: lamina
linear or lanceolate; ligule a line of hairs. Inflorescence of
racemes borne upon a short common axis; spikelets single
and abaxial or paired. Spikelets lanceolate to
ovate, plano-convex, cuspidate to acuminate; lower glume
mostly shorter than spikelet; upper glume as long as spikelet,
usually membranous; lower floret male or sterile, lower lemma
resembling upper glume; upper lemma obtuse,
mucronate. Worldwide: 110 species in the Old World tropics Mozambique: 3 taxa. |
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