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Annuals or perennials. Inflorescence composed of 1 or more deciduous racemes arranged along an axis. Spikelets with several flowers, laterally flattened. Glumes 1-nerved, membranous, unequal. Lemmas 3-nerved, keeled, acuminate to shortly awned. Derivation of name: from the Greek: pogon meaning beard, arthron, a joint; probably referring to the beaded joints of the rhachilla in the spikelet. Worldwide: 4 species in tropical and South Africa. Zambia: 3 taxa. |
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| Species | FZ divisions | Provinces | Content |
| fleckii (Hack.) Hack. | B,S | S | Description |
| refracta Launert [LR-lc] | S | ||
| squarrosa (Roem. & Schult.) Pilg. | B,N,W,C,E,S | E,Lk | Description, Image |
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