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Annuals or perennials. Inflorescence composed of racemes, these digitate or borne upon an elongated central axis; spikelets 2-3(-5)-nate, rarely solitary. Spikelets pedicellate, awnless; lower floret barren; upper floret bisexual; lower glume small or 0; upper glume as long as the spikelet or shorter, exposing the upper lemma; lower lemma usually as long as the spikelet, typically with longitudinal lines of hairs between the nerves; upper lemma chartaceous to cartilaginous, longitudinally striate. Worldwide: c. 220 species in warm and tropical regions Zambia: 47 taxa. The larvae of the following species of insect eat species of this genus:
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| Species | FZ divisions | Provinces | Content |
| abyssinica (Hochst. ex A.Rich.) Stapf | N | ||
| acuminatissima Stapf | N,S,W | Description | |
| angolensis Rendle | B,N,C,S | N,Lk,S,W | Description |
| atrofusca (Hack.) Camus | N | ||
| bidactyla van der Veken [LR-nt] | N | ||
| brazzae (Franch.) Stapf | B,N,W,C,S | C,S,W | Description |
| calcarata Clayton [DD] | N | ||
| ciliaris (Retz.) Koeler | E,Lk,W | Description | |
| comifera Pilg. | B,N,C,S | C,S,W | Description |
| complanata Goetgh. | N | Description, Image | |
| compressa Stapf | N,C,E,S | N,S,W | Description |
| debilis (Desf.) Willd. | N,E,W | Description | |
| diagonalis (Nees) Stapf | Lk,S,W | Description | |
| eriantha Steud. | C,W | Description | |
| eylesii C.E. Hubb. | Nw,C,S | Description | |
| flaccida Stapf | |||
| floribunda Goetgh. | N | ||
| gayana (Kunth) Stapf ex A. Chev. | N,C,W | Description | |
| gazensis Rendle | B,N,W,C,E,S | N,C,Lk,W | Description, Image |
| hyalina Robyns & van der Veken | Cb | ||
| leptorrhachis (Pilg.) Stapf | Nw | ||
| longiflora (Retz.) Pers. | Cb,C,W | Description | |
| maniculata Stapf | S,W | Description | |
| milanjiana (Rendle) Stapf | N,Lk,S,W | Description | |
| minoriflora Goetgh. [DD] | Lp | ||
| monodactyla (Nees) Stapf | Lk,W | Description | |
| nitens Rendle | Lk | Description | |
| nuda Schumach. | B,N,W,C,E,S | Nw,E,Lk | Description |
| parodii Jacq.-Fél. | Cb,N | ||
| perrottetii (Kunth) Stapf | B,N,W,C,S | N,C,Lk,W | Description, Image |
| phaeotricha (Chiov.) Robyns | Lp,C | ||
| poggeana Mez | N | ||
| procurrens Goetgh. [DD] | N | ||
| pseudodiagonalis Chiov. | N,S,W | Description | |
| pulchra Van der Veken | N | ||
| redheadii (C.E.Hubb.) Clayton | Nw,W | ||
| remotigluma (De Winter) Clayton | B,N,W,E,S | C,W | Description |
| rukwae Clayton | N | ||
| sacculata Clayton [DD] | N | ||
| sanguinalis (L.) Scop. | B,N,C,E,S | E,Lk,W | Description |
| scalarum (Schweinf.) Chiov. | B,N,C | Lk,W | Description |
| setifolia Stapf | W | Cb | Description |
| siderograpta Chiov. | N,W | Cb | |
| tenuifolia Goetgh. [LR-nt] | N | ||
| ternata (A. Rich.) Stapf | N,W,E,S | N,Lk,S | Description |
| velutina (Forssk.) P. Beauv. | C,S | Lk,W | Description, Image |
| ventriosa van der Veken | Nw |
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