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Annuals or perennials. Leaves: lamina variable, from linear to ovate. Inflorescence a panicle, usually much branched, but occasionally ± contracted about the primary branches. Spikelets dorsally flattened, rarely slightly gibbous; lower glume usually shorter than (rarely equal to) the spikelet; upper glume as long as, the spikelet, often with a stipe-like internode between the glumes; lower floret male or barren; its lower lemma resembling the upper glume; upper lemma crustaceous; margin involute and clasping only the edges of the palea. A generally recognisable genus but the following could be confused with it: Brachiaria deflexa, Eriochloa meyeriana, Tricholaena monachne. Worldwide: 500 species or more in tropical and warm temperate zones Malawi: 45 taxa. The larvae of the following species of insect eat species of this genus:
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| adenophorum K.Schum. | N | |
| aequinerve Nees | S | |
| brevifolium L. | S | Description |
| carneovaginatum Renvoize | N | |
| chionachne Mez | N,C,S | Description, Image |
| claytonii Renvoize | N,S | |
| coloratum L. var. coloratum | S | Description |
| comorense Mez | C,S | |
| delicatulum Fig. & de Not. | N,C,S | Description, Image |
| dregeanum Nees | N,C,S | Description, Image |
| ecklonii Nees | N,S | Description |
| eickii Mez | S | Description |
| fluviicola Steud. | C,S | Description |
| glandulopaniculatum Renvoize | N | Description |
| gracilicaule Rendle | N,C,S | Description |
| graniflorum Stapf | N,C | Description |
| hanningtonii Stapf | N | |
| haplocaulos Pilg. | N,C | Description |
| hymeniochilum Nees | C | Description |
| inaequilatum Stapf & C.E. Hubb. | N,S | Description |
| infestum Andersson ex Peters | N | Description |
| laticomum Nees | S | Description |
| lukwangulense Pilg. | N | |
| madipirense Mez | S | Description |
| massaiense Mez | C | |
| maximum Jacq. | S | Description, Image |
| merkeri Mez | C,S | Description |
| miliaceum L. | Description | |
| monticola Hook. f. | N,C,S | Description, Image |
| natalense Hochst. | N | Description |
| nervatum (Franch.) Stapf | N | Description |
| novemnerve Stapf | S | Description |
| nymphoides Renvoize[End] | S | |
| pansum Rendle | N | |
| parvifolium Lam. | N | |
| pectinellum Stapf | N | |
| phragmitoides Stapf | N,C,S | Description |
| porphyrrhizos Steud. | C | Description |
| pusillum Hook. f. | N | |
| repens L. | C,S | Description |
| repentellum Napper | N,S | Description |
| subalbidum Kunth | C,S | Description, Image |
| trichocladum Hack. ex K. Schum. | N,S | Description |
| trichoides Sw. | S | Description |
| wiehei Renvoize | N,C,S | Description |
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