Annuals or perennials. Inflorescence terminal or axillary, of paired or digitate (occasionally single) racemes, sometimes numerous and crowded into a spathate false panicle; racemes lacking homogamous pairs; internodes and pedicels filiform to obovoid. Sessile spikelet dorsally flattened or squeezed between pedicel and internode; callus obtuse, inserted in the concave top of the internode; lower glume membranous to coriaceous, mostly flat, concave or deeply grooved on the back, 2-keeled; upper glume with or without an awn; lower floret reduced to a hyaline lemma; upper lemma hyaline, 2-lobed, with a conspicuous awn from the sinus. Pedicellate spikelet male or barren (sometimes 0), usually awnless. Similar to Ischaemum. See the note under that genus. Worldwide: c. 100 species in tropical and warm regions Mozambique: 8 taxa. |
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| canaliculatus Schumach. | N | Description |
| chinensis (Nees) Merr. | N,T,MS | Description |
| eucomus Nees subsp. eucomus | N,Z,T,MS,GI,M | Description, Image |
| eucomus Nees subsp. huillensis (Rendle) Sales | GI | Description, Image |
| fastigiatus Sw. | N,T | Description |
| gayanus Kunth | N,Z,T,MS,GI,M | Description |
| mannii Hook. f. | MS | Description |
| schirensis Hochst. ex A. Rich. | N,Z,T,MS,GI,M | Description |