Robust annuals or perennials. Leaves: lamina linear. Inflorescence a large terminal panicle, the branches bearing short racemes; internodes and pedicels filiform; spikelets of each pair different. Sessile spikelet dorsally flattened; lower glume ± coriaceous, broadly convex across the back, becoming 2-keeled and narrowly winged near the tip; lower floret reduced to a hyaline lemma; upper lemma hyaline, 2-dentate with a glabrous awn from the sinus. Pedicellate spikelet male or barren, narrower than the sessile and awnless. Worldwide: 24 species in warm parts of the Old World including 1 species in Mexico Burundi: 4 taxa. |
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arundinaceum (Desv.) Stapf | Description, Image | |
bicolor (L.) Moench | Description | |
bicolor (L.) Moench [Agg] | ||
versicolor Andersson | Description, Image |