Citation: Rich., in Pers., Syn. Pl. 1:85 (1805).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Stoloniferous perennials; leaf blades flat or folded; ligule membranous.

Inflorescence of spikes arranged digitately; spikelets 1-flowered, small, almost sessile, in 2 rows along one side of the narrow continuous (non-articulate) rhachis of the spikes, the rhachilla disarticulating and ending in a slender bristle; glumes narrow, acute, 1-nerved, shorter than the floret; lemma awnless, folded, keeled, 3-nerved.

Distribution:  About 10 species, cosmopolitan but especially in Africa. (Lazarides (1972) Aust. J. Bot. suppl, ser. 5).

Biology: No text

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