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Annuals or perennials. Inflorescence of irregular racemes, these digitate or in whorls on a short common axis; racemes sometimes bare at base bearing the spikelets in pairs or in clusters. Spikelets ovate to elliptic; glumes acute to shortly awned; lower c. 1/2 as long, upper as long as the spikelet with ciliate margin; upper lemma awned, crisply chartaceous; margin involute. Worldwide: 6 species in the Old World tropics Zambia: 5 taxa. |
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| angusta Stapf | W,C | |
| cimicina (L.) Stapf | C,E,S | Description |
| paniculata (Benth.) Stapf | ||
| semialata (R. Br.) Hitchc. subsp. eckloniana (Nees) Gibbs Russ. | W | Description |
| semialata (R. Br.) Hitchc. subsp. semialata | B,N,W,E,S | Description, Image |
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