Annual. Inflorescence composed of numerous crowded racemes, hence forming a dense spike. Spikelets several-flowered, laterally flattened, disarticulating above the glumes and between the florets. Glumes persistent, unequal, 1-nerved, shorter than the spikelet. Lemmas 3-nerved, conspicuously ciliate on lateral nerves, 2-toothed or entire with a long awn. Worldwide: 1 species in eastern and southern Africa and Arabia Caprivi: 1 cultivated taxon. |
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