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Annuals or perennials. Inflorescence a panicle with elongated central axis; primary branches bearing short racemes. Rhachis internodes and pedicels slender. Spikelets of each pair markedly different; the sessile spikelet fertile, the pedicellate spikelet (mostly in ours) reduced to a barren pedicel. Sessile spikelet: lower glume coriaceous, keeled at apex; upper glume broadly convex; upper lemma awned. Worldwide: 17 species occurring in Africa and tropical and warm America Zambia: 5 taxa. |
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| fuscescens (Pilg.) Clayton | N | |
| incompletum (Presl) Nash var. bipennatum (Hack.) P.D. Davila | W,C,E | Description |
| nudipes Nash | B,N,C,S | Description |
| pogonostachyum (Stapf) Clayton | N,C | |
| stipoides (Kunth) Nash | N,C |
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