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Perennials (ours). Inflorescence an open or contracted panicle with slender branches. Spikelets 1-flowered, bisexual; glumes 0 or rudimentary; sterile lemmas 0; fertile lemma boat-shaped, strongly keeled, 5-nerved, awnless or tapering to a short awn-like structure. Stamens 6. Derivation of name: after Johann Daniel Leers, 1727-1774, German botanist Worldwide: 17 species in tropical and warm temperate regions Zambia: 6 taxa. |
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| Species | FZ divisions | Provinces | Content |
| denudata Launert | B,N,W,C,S | Cb,N,S,W | Description |
| friesii Melderis | N,S | N,S | |
| hexandra Sw. | B,N,W,C,E,S | Cb,N,E,C,Lk,S,W | Description, Image |
| nematostachya Launert | W | Nw | |
| oncothrix C.E. Hubb. | N,S | N,S | |
| tisserantii (A.Chev.) Launert | N | N |
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