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Perennials. Inflorescence of several-many racemes, digitate or scattered along a central axis. Racemes bearing appressed spikelets on a flat rhachis. Spikelets 1-flowered, sessile, alternate in 2 rows, disarticulating above the glumes. Glumes unequal, 1-nerved, membranous, acute, enclosing the floret; lower keeled, upper dorsally rounded. Lemma 1/3 - 1/2 as long as glumes, dorsally rounded, hyaline, obtuse. Worldwide: 3 species in southern tropical Africa Zimbabwe: 3 taxa. |
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Species | FZ divisions | Content |
africana Benth. | N,W,C,E,S | Description |
digitata Kupicha & Cope[End][DD] | C,S | Description |
rhodesiana Rendle | N,W,C,E,S | Description |
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