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Annual or perennial herbs. Perennials with a woody rhizome. Culms with leaves and nodes throughout. Leaves usually flat. Ligule present, tubular. Inflorescence paniculate, consisting of 1-several clusters of spikelets or compound corymbs of spikelets, the inflorescence branches usually hairy. Spikelets of numerous overlapping glumes, the 2 lowest sterile, the upper with bisexual flowers. Glumes spirally arranged, sometimes 5-ranked, pubescent with the midrib excurrent into a mucro. Perianth segments 3 or 6, sometimes 0, sometimes in 2 whorls of differing type. Stamens 2-3. Stigmas 3. Nutlet sessile, triangular, obovoid. Derivation of name: Jørgen Fuiren (Georgius Fuirenius), 1581-1628, Danish physician, botanist and plant collector. Worldwide: 30 species in warm regions of the world. Zambia: 12 taxa. |
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| Species | FZ divisions | Provinces | Content |
| abnormalis C.B. Clarke | |||
| ciliaris (L.) Roxb. var. ciliaris | Lk,S | ||
| coerulescens Steud. | Mc,Lk | ||
| leptostachya Oliv. var. leptostachya | E,S | ||
| leptostachya Oliv. var. nudiflora C.B. Clarke | Cb,W | ||
| obcordata P. L. Forbes | N | ||
| pachyrrhiza Ridl. var. pachyrrhiza | N,C,S | ||
| pubescens Kunth | |||
| stricta Steud. var. stricta | N,C,S | N,Lk,S | Image |
| stricta Steud[Agg] | B,N,C,S | N,Mc,Lk,S,W | Image |
| stricta Steud. subsp. chlorocarpa (Ridley) Lye | N,S | ||
| umbellata Rottb. | B,N,C,S | Lp,N,Mc,C,Lk,S,W | Description, Image |
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