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Annuals or perennials. Inflorescence composed of racemes, these digitate or borne upon an elongated central axis; spikelets 2-3(-5)-nate, rarely solitary. Spikelets pedicellate, awnless; lower floret barren; upper floret bisexual; lower glume small or 0; upper glume as long as the spikelet or shorter, exposing the upper lemma; lower lemma usually as long as the spikelet, typically with longitudinal lines of hairs between the nerves; upper lemma chartaceous to cartilaginous, longitudinally striate. Worldwide: c. 220 species in warm and tropical regions Malawi: 24 taxa. The larvae of the following species of insect eat species of this genus:
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| angolensis Rendle | C | Description |
| brazzae (Franch.) Stapf | C | Description |
| comifera Pilg. | N,C | Description |
| complanata Goetgh. | N | Description, Image |
| compressa Stapf | N,C | Description |
| debilis (Desf.) Willd. | Description | |
| diagonalis (Nees) Stapf | Description | |
| dunensis P. Goetghebeur[End] | C | |
| gazensis Rendle | N,C,S | Description, Image |
| longiflora (Retz.) Pers. | Description | |
| maitlandii Stapf & C.E. Hubb. | Description | |
| milanjiana (Rendle) Stapf | Description | |
| nitens Rendle | Description | |
| nuda Schumach. | C,S | Description |
| pearsonii Stapf | Description | |
| perrottetii (Kunth) Stapf | C,S | Description, Image |
| remotigluma (De Winter) Clayton | C | Description |
| sanguinalis (L.) Scop. | N,S | Description |
| scalarum (Schweinf.) Chiov. | C | Description |
| siderograpta Chiov. | S | |
| swazilandensis Stent | S | |
| ternata (A. Rich.) Stapf | N,C,S | Description |
| trinervis Van der Veken[End] | S | |
| velutina (Forssk.) P. Beauv. | C,S | Description, Image |
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