Annuals or perennials. Racemes single, usually arranged in a spatheate false panicle. Sessile spikelet: callus short, obtuse; lower glume awnless, with a deep, narrow median groove or flat or convex, with several intercarinal nerves, these distinct especially near the apex; upper glume usually keeled; lower floret reduced to a hyaline lemma; upper floret bisexual; lemma keeled, usually deeply 2-fid, awned. Pedicellate spikelet usually male or vestigial and smaller than the sessile spikelet. Worldwide: c. 60 species distributed throughout the tropica Zambia: 7 taxa. |
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| brevifolium (Sw.) Nees ex Büse | N,W,C,E,S | Description |
| claudopus (Chiov.) Chiov. | B,N,W | |
| exile (Hochst.) Pilg. | B,N,W,C,E,S | Description |
| jeffreysii (Hack.) Stapf | B,N,C,S | Description |
| lopollense (Rendle) Sales | B,N,W | |
| sanguineum (Retz.) Alston | B,N,W,C,S | Description, Image |
| thollonii (Franch.) Stapf | B,N,W,C | Description |