Perennial (ours). Inflorescence a single terminal raceme, bearing spikelets, arranged alternately, embedded in the rhachis. Rhachis spongy, fracturing into segments of 1-4(-8) spikelets. Spikelets sessile, dorsally flattened, 1-flowered. Glumes unequal; lower abaxial, hyaline and minute; upper adaxial, appressed to the rhachis, concealing the floret, (1-)3-nerved. Lemma hyaline, 3-nerved, emarginate to 2-toothed at apex, mucronate or rarely awned. Worldwide: 6 species in the Old World tropics Tanzania: 1 taxon. |
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