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Launert, E. (1971) Poaceae Flora Zambesiaca 10(1)
A perennial grass with erect or ascending culms. Inflorescences loose open panicles. Spikelets pedicelled, laterally compressed, imbricate, awnless, 1-5-flowered; rhachilla glabrous or somewhat pubescent, not disarticulating between the florets. Glumes equal in size or the inferior one slightly shorter; the inferior narrowly to broadly lanceolate; the superior broadly lanceolate to lanceolate-oblong. Lemmas somewhat keeled or dorsally rounded, membranous to cartilaginous. Paleas slightly shorter than the corresponding lemmas. Caryopsis free, laterally compressed, obliquely elliptic-oblong in outline. Worldwide: Two species, one in tropical Africa and one in tropical America. Zambia: 1 taxon. |
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| africana C.E. Hubb. | N,W |
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