471.000 Fimbristylis Vahl

Annual or perennial herbs. Leaves flat and linear, never filiform except in F. squarrosa, usually without hairs at the throat of the leaf sheath. Inflorescence an anthela. Glumes spirally arranged; the lowest two glumes may be empty, the succeeding ones bisexual, the uppermost male or sterile. Perianth 0. Stamens 1-3; stigmas 2 or 3, the base of the style falling with the rest of the style. (In F. squarrosa, slender processes descend from the style base over the nutlet). Nutlet biconvex if stigmas 2, trigonous if stigmas 3. Nutlet smooth. tuberculate or longitudinally striate, never transversely wrinkled as in Bulbostylis.

Burundi: 8 taxa.