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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 Caprivi: 23 cultivated taxa. The larvae of the following species of insect eat species of this genus:
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Species | Content |
abyssinica (Hochst. ex A.Rich.) Stapf | |
acuminatissima Stapf | Description |
angolensis Rendle | Description |
atrofusca (Hack.) Camus | |
ciliaris (Retz.) Koeler | Description |
comifera Pilg. | Description |
complanata Goetgh. | Description, Image |
debilis (Desf.) Willd. | Description |
diagonalis (Nees) Stapf | Description |
gayana (Kunth) Stapf ex A. Chev. | Description |
gazensis Rendle | Description, Image |
longiflora (Retz.) Pers. | Description |
maitlandii Stapf & C.E. Hubb. | Description |
nuda Schumach. | Description |
pearsonii Stapf | Description |
perrottetii (Kunth) Stapf | Description, Image |
pseudodiagonalis Chiov. | Description |
pulchra Van der Veken | |
sanguinalis (L.) Scop. | Description |
siderograpta Chiov. | |
ternata (A. Rich.) Stapf | Description |
thouaresiana (Flüggé) A. Camus | Description |
velutina (Forssk.) P. Beauv. | Description, Image |
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