Annuals or perennials. Inflorescence a panicle with elongated central axis; primary branches bearing short racemes. Rhachis internodes and pedicels slender. Spikelets of each pair markedly different; the sessile spikelet fertile, the pedicellate spikelet (mostly in ours) reduced to a barren pedicel. Sessile spikelet: lower glume coriaceous, keeled at apex; upper glume broadly convex; upper lemma awned. Worldwide: 17 species occurring in Africa and tropical and warm America Malawi: 5 taxa. |
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| fuscescens (Pilg.) Clayton | C | |
| incompletum (Presl) Nash var. africanum (Franch.) ined. | N,C,S | Description |
| nudipes Nash | C | Description |
| pogonostachyum (Stapf) Clayton | C | |
| stipoides (Kunth) Nash | N,C,S |