Inflorescence an open or contracted panicle. Spikelets (4)5–10-flowered; glumes unequal, shorter than the lowermost lemma, acute, acuminate or 2-lobed and shortly awned; lowermost floret male or with a rudimentary or rarely a perfect ovary, persisting on the panicle with the glumes, the lemma resembling the superior glume or deeply 2-lobed; floret callus oblong; fertile lemmas dorsally rounded, 5-nerved, glabrous or pilose above, with a tuft of hairs on each margin below, 2-lobed at the apex, the lobes aristate, with a geniculate awn in the sinus. Worldwide: Species 6 in Tanzania, Mozambique, Malawi and Angola. Tanzania: 0 taxa. |
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