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Annuals or perennials. Spikelets 1-flowered, disarticulating above the glumes, in terminal, lax or contracted, panicles; glumes persistent, narrow, usually 1-nerved. Lemma narrow, with hard callus at base, with or without a beak or twisted column; articulation present or 0, usually visible as a transverse darker line on the body of the lemma, occurring at the apex of the lemma or at the apex of the column; awns 3 (1 central, 2 lateral) or rarely 1, glabrous. Worldwide: c. 330 species in warm regions of the world Malawi: 10 taxa. |
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| adscensionis L. | C,S | Description, Image |
| cumingiana Trin. & Rupr. | N | Description |
| denudata Pilg. | S | Description |
| diminuta (Mez) C.E. Hubb. | S | Description |
| hordeacea Kunth | N | Description |
| junciformis Trin. & Rupr. subsp. macilenta (Henrard) Melderis | C | Description |
| junciformis Trin. & Rupr. subsp. welwitschii (Rendle) Melderis | Description | |
| recta Franch. | N,C,S | Description, Image |
| scabrivalvis Hack. subsp. borumensis (Henrard) Melderis | N | |
| textilis Mez | N |
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