Tall, rhizomatous, perennial reeds. Leaves cauline: ligule a line of hairs. Panicle, large, plumose. Spikelets with lowest floret male or barren, the following bisexual but the uppermost also reduced; glumes shorter than the lowest lemma, 3–5-nerved; lemmas
glabrous, hyaline, 1–3-nerved, with caudate apex; callus plumose.
A world-wide genus of
weakly-defined species. Worldwide: 3 species, cosmopolitan Zimbabwe: 2 taxa. |
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