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Cope, T.A. (1999) Poaceae Flora Zambesiaca 10(2)
Inflorescence of 1–many digitate 1-sided racemes bearing imbricate spikelets on a flat rhachis. Spikelets 2-flowered, strongly laterally compressed, sessile, in 1 row on a tough axis, disarticulating above the glumes; glumes subequal, membranous, keeled, enclosing the florets, acute to acuminate at the apex, the superior deciduous, sometimes with a short awn; fertile lemma coriaceous, keeled, mucronate or with a short subapical awn. Caryopsis ellipsoid, trigonous. Worldwide: Four species in tropical Africa. Zambia: 1 taxon. |
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