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Annuals or perennials. Leaves: lamina variable, from linear to ovate. Inflorescence a panicle, usually much branched, but occasionally ± contracted about the primary branches. Spikelets dorsally flattened, rarely slightly gibbous; lower glume usually shorter than (rarely equal to) the spikelet; upper glume as long as, the spikelet, often with a stipe-like internode between the glumes; lower floret male or barren; its lower lemma resembling the upper glume; upper lemma crustaceous; margin involute and clasping only the edges of the palea. A generally recognisable genus but the following could be confused with it: Brachiaria deflexa, Eriochloa meyeriana, Tricholaena monachne. Worldwide: 500 species or more in tropical and warm temperate zones Caprivi: 28 cultivated taxa. The larvae of the following species of insect eat species of this genus:
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Species | Content |
adenophorum K.Schum. | |
aequinerve Nees | |
atrosanguineum A. Rich. | Description |
brevifolium L. | Description |
calvum Stapf | |
chionachne Mez | Description, Image |
comorense Mez | |
deustum Thunb. | Description |
dregeanum Nees | Description, Image |
ecklonii Nees | Description |
eickii Mez | Description |
flacciflorum Stapf | |
funaense Vanderyst | |
gracilicaule Rendle | Description |
habrothrix Renvoize | |
heterostachyum Hack. | Description, Image |
hochstetteri Steud. | |
monticola Hook. f. | Description, Image |
nervatum (Franch.) Stapf | Description |
pansum Rendle | |
parvifolium Lam. | |
pectinellum Stapf | |
phragmitoides Stapf | Description |
pseudoracemosum Renvoize | |
pusillum Hook. f. | |
repens L. | Description |
subalbidum Kunth | Description, Image |
trichocladum Hack. ex K. Schum. | Description |
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