Annuals or perennials. Inflorescence terminal or axillary, of paired or digitate (occasionally single) racemes, sometimes numerous and crowded into a spathate false panicle; racemes lacking homogamous pairs; internodes and pedicels filiform to obovoid. Sessile spikelet dorsally flattened or squeezed between pedicel and internode; callus obtuse, inserted in the concave top of the internode; lower glume membranous to coriaceous, mostly flat, concave or deeply grooved on the back, 2-keeled; upper glume with or without an awn; lower floret reduced to a hyaline lemma; upper lemma hyaline, 2-lobed, with a conspicuous awn from the sinus. Pedicellate spikelet male or barren (sometimes 0), usually awnless. Similar to Ischaemum. See the note under that genus. Worldwide: c. 100 species in tropical and warm regions Malawi: 15 taxa. |
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| amethystinus Steud. | N | |
| canaliculatus Schumach. | N | Description |
| chinensis (Nees) Merr. | N,C,S | Description |
| eucomus Nees subsp. eucomus | N,C,S | Description, Image |
| eucomus Nees subsp. huillensis (Rendle) Sales | N | Description, Image |
| fastigiatus Sw. | N,C,S | Description |
| festuciformis Rendle | N | |
| gayanus Kunth | N,C,S | Description |
| ligulatus (Stapf) Clayton | C | Description |
| lima (Hack.) Stapf | S | |
| mannii Hook. f. | S | Description |
| perligulatus Stapf | N,C | Description |
| pseudapricus Stapf | S | |
| schirensis Hochst. ex A. Rich. | N,C,S | Description |
| textilis Welw. | N,C | Description |