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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 Zimbabwe: 2 taxa. |
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Species | FZ divisions | Content |
incompletum (Presl) Nash var. bipennatum (Hack.) P.D. Davila | N,C,E | Description |
nudipes Nash | N,W,C,S | Description |
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