Annuals or perennials. Inflorescence composed of racemes, these digitate or borne upon an elongated central axis; spikelets 2-3(-5)-nate, rarely solitary. Spikelets pedicellate, awnless; lower floret barren; upper floret bisexual; lower glume small or 0; upper glume as long as the spikelet or shorter, exposing the upper lemma; lower lemma usually as long as the spikelet, typically with longitudinal lines of hairs between the nerves; upper lemma chartaceous to cartilaginous, longitudinally striate. Worldwide: c. 220 species in warm and tropical regions Mozambique: 32 taxa. Insects associated with this genus:
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| acuminatissima Stapf | Description | |
| appropinquata Goetgh. [End] | Z | |
| argyrograpta (Nees) Stapf | ||
| argyrotricha (Andersson) Chiov. | ||
| brazzae (Franch.) Stapf | T | Description |
| ciliaris (Retz.) Koeler | Description | |
| comifera Pilg. | N,Z | Description |
| compressa Stapf | N,MS | Description |
| debilis (Desf.) Willd. | Description | |
| diagonalis (Nees) Stapf | Description | |
| eriantha Steud. | Description | |
| fuscopilosa Goetgh. [End] | MS | |
| gazensis Rendle | N,Z,T,MS | Description, Image |
| gymnostachys Pilg. | ||
| longiflora (Retz.) Pers. | Description | |
| maitlandii Stapf & C.E. Hubb. | Description | |
| megasthenes Goetgh. [End] | N,Z | |
| milanjiana (Rendle) Stapf | Description | |
| natalensis Stent | ||
| nitens Rendle | Description | |
| nuda Schumach. | N,Z,T,MS,M | Description |
| pearsonii Stapf | Description | |
| perrottetii (Kunth) Stapf | N,Z,MS,GI,M | Description, Image |
| polyphylla Henr. | ||
| pseudodiagonalis Chiov. | N | Description |
| sanguinalis (L.) Scop. | N,Z,T,MS | Description |
| scalarum (Schweinf.) Chiov. | M | Description |
| setifolia Stapf | MS | Description |
| swazilandensis Stent | MS,GI,M | |
| ternata (A. Rich.) Stapf | N,GI,M | Description |
| thouaresiana (Flüggé) A. Camus | MS | Description |
| velutina (Forssk.) P. Beauv. | T | Description, Image |