Annual or perennial herbs. Culms ± triangular, leafy. Leaves linear to narrowly oblong. Sheaths closed. Spikelets bearing flowers of one or both sexes; the bisexual spikelets with one basal female and 1-few males above; female spikelet with 1 basal female and 1-2 empty scales or none, above; male spikelets with 1-numerous male flowers. Flowers unisexual, solitary in axils of the glumes, the lower 2-4 glumes empty. Perianth bristles 0. Male flowers consisting of 1-3 stamens. Female flowers with 3 stigmas, not enclosed in a utricle. Nutlet often white, grey or ± black, borne on a hypogynium. Hypogynium often triangular, widened out into a simple or 3-lobed disk or (rarely) a cupule or almost 0. Worldwide: 200 species in tropical and warm regions Zambia: 62 taxa. |
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| achtenii De Wild. | ||
| adpresso-hirta (Kük.) E.A. Rob. | ||
| adpressohirta (Kük.) E.A.Rob. | ||
| angustifolia E.A. Rob. | ||
| arcuata E.A. Rob. | ||
| bambariensis Cherm. var. bambariensis | B,N,W,S | |
| bambariensis Cherm. var. b of Robinson | ||
| bequaertii De Wild. | ||
| bulbifera Hochst. ex A.Rich. | B,N,W,C,S | Description, Image |
| calcicola E.A. Rob. [DD] | W,C,S | Description |
| catophylla C.B. Clarke | B,N | Description, Image |
| chlorocalyx E.A. Rob. [DD] | ||
| clathrata A.Rich. | ||
| delicatula Nelmes [DD] | ||
| distans Poir. var. distans | N,W | Description, Image |
| dregeana Kunth | N,C,S | Description, Image |
| erythrorrhiza Ridl. | N | Description, Image |
| flexuosa Boeckeler | N,W,S | Description, Image |
| foliosa Hochst. ex A.Rich. | C,S | Description, Image |
| fulvipilosa E.A. Rob. [DD] | ||
| glabra Boeck. | N,W,C,E | Description, Image |
| globonux C.B. Clarke | N,S | Description, Image |
| gracillima Boeck. | ||
| griegifolia (Ridl.) C.B. Clarke | N | Description, Image |
| hispidula A.Rich. | ||
| induta Turrill | ||
| iostephana Nelmes | N,C | Description, Image |
| lacustris Sauvalle [DD] | N | Description, Image |
| lagoensis Boeckeler | B,C,S | Description, Image |
| lateritica Nelmes | ||
| laxiflora R. Gross | ||
| lithosperma (L.) Sw. | ||
| longispiculata Nelmes [DD] | B,C | Description, Image |
| lucentinigricans E.A. Rob. [DD] | ||
| melanomphala Kunth | B,N,W,C | Description, Image |
| melanotricha A. Rich. | W | Description, Image |
| mikawana Makino | ||
| nyasensis C.B. Clarke | N,C | Description, Image |
| parvula Steud. | ||
| patula E.A. Rob. [DD] | ||
| paupercula E.A. Rob. | N,W,C | Description, Image |
| pergracilis (Nees) Kunth | N,C,S | Description, Image |
| polyrrhiza E.A. Rob. [DD] | ||
| pooides Ridl. | N,W,C | Description, Image |
| porphyrocarpa E.A. Rob. | ||
| procumbens E.A. Rob. [DD] | ||
| pulchella Ridl. | ||
| racemosa Poir. | N,C | Description, Image |
| rehmannii C.B. Clarke | B,N,C,S | Description, Image |
| richardsiae E.A. Rob. | ||
| schimperiana Boeckeler | C,S | Description, Image |
| tessellata Willd. var. tessellata | C | Description |
| tessellata Willd. var. sphaerocarpa E.A.Rob. | Description, Image | |
| tessellata Willd. [Agg] | N,W,C,S | Description |
| unguiculata E.A. Rob. | ||
| veseyfitzgeraldii E.A. Rob. | ||
| welwitschii C.B. Clarke | N,C,S | Description, Image |
| woodii C.B. Clarke (1894) [Agg] | B,C,S | Description |
| woodii C.B. Clarke var. ornata (Cherm.) W. Schultze-Motel | S | Description, Image |
| woodii C.B.Clarke var. woodii Napper | Description, Image | |
| xerophila E.A.Rob. [DD] | ||
| zambesica E.A.Rob. [DD] |