Annuals or perennials. Spikelets 1-flowered, disarticulating above the glumes, in terminal, lax or contracted, panicles; glumes persistent, narrow, usually 1-nerved. Lemma narrow, with hard callus at base, with or without a beak or twisted column; articulation present or 0, usually visible as a transverse darker line on the body of the lemma, occurring at the apex of the lemma or at the apex of the column; awns 3 (1 central, 2 lateral) or rarely 1, glabrous. Worldwide: c. 330 species in warm regions of the world Burundi: 6 taxa. |
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| Species | Content | |
| adoensis Hochst. ex A.Rich. | ||
| adscensionis L. | Description, Image | |
| diminuta (Mez) C.E. Hubb. | Description | |
| hordeacea Kunth | Description | |
| recta Franch. | Description, Image | |
| stenostachya Clayton |