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Annuals or perennials. Inflorescence a dense, spike-like panicle (in ours), rarely open. Spikelets laterally flattened (dorsally in S. interrupta), asymmetrical; glumes prominently ribbed; lower 1/4 to 3/4 the length of the spikelet; upper glume equalling spikelet and gibbous; lower lemma resembling upper glume but less gibbous; upper lemma dorsally flattened, thinly coriaceous to cartilaginous; margin flat or involute but never hyaline Worldwide: 30 species in tropical and warm areas, especially Africa Zambia: 11 taxa. |
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| africana C.E. Hubb. & Snowden | B,N,C,S | Description |
| catumbensis (Rendle) Stapf | N,W | |
| chevalieri Stapf | B,N,W,C,S | Description |
| indica (L.) Chase | B,N,W,E,S | Description |
| interrupta (Willd.) Stapf | N,E,S | Description |
| micrococca Mez | E | Description |
| rigens (Mez) A.Chev. | N,W | |
| seslerioides (Rendle) Stapf | N,W | Description |
| spiciformis (A. Rich.) Stapf | N,W,C,S | Description |
| transbarbata Stapf | N,W,C,S | Description |
| typhura (Stapf) Stapf | B,N,C,E | Description, Image |
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