G.570. Miscanthus Andersson

Tall perennials with erect culms. Inflorescence large, plumose, the central axis elongated and bearing crowded racemes on the primary branches; the rhachis of racemes tough, not fracturing at maturity; spikelets paired, similar, both pedicellate. Spikelets surrounded by an involucre of hairs from the callus; glumes equal, as long as spikelet; lower floret a hyaline lemma; upper bisexual; upper lemma hyaline, entire or 2-dentate, with or without an awn.

Worldwide: c. 20 species in the Old World tropics, South Africa and East Asia

Zambia: 3 taxa.