Annuals or perennials. Inflorescence composed of racemes, these digitate or borne upon an elongated central axis; spikelets 2-3(-5)-nate, rarely solitary. Spikelets pedicellate, awnless; lower floret barren; upper floret bisexual; lower glume small or 0; upper glume as long as the spikelet or shorter, exposing the upper lemma; lower lemma usually as long as the spikelet, typically with longitudinal lines of hairs between the nerves; upper lemma chartaceous to cartilaginous, longitudinally striate. Worldwide: c. 220 species in warm and tropical regions Zimbabwe: 30 taxa. Insects associated with this genus:
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| acuminatissima Stapf | N,W,E | Description |
| angolensis Rendle | N,C,E | Description |
| brazzae (Franch.) Stapf | N,W,C,E,S | Description |
| ciliaris (Retz.) Koeler | N,C,E,S | Description |
| comifera Pilg. | N,W,C,E | Description |
| compressa Stapf | N | Description |
| debilis (Desf.) Willd. | N,W,C,E,S | Description |
| diagonalis (Nees) Stapf | N,C,E,S | Description |
| diversinervis (Nees) Stapf | C | |
| eriantha Steud. | N,W,C,E,S | Description |
| eylesii C.E. Hubb. | N,C,S | Description |
| gayana (Kunth) Stapf ex A. Chev. | N,W,C,S | Description |
| gazensis Rendle | N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
| longiflora (Retz.) Pers. | E,S | Description |
| maitlandii Stapf & C.E. Hubb. | E | Description |
| maniculata Stapf | W | Description |
| milanjiana (Rendle) Stapf | N,W,C,E,S | Description |
| monodactyla (Nees) Stapf | N,W,C,E,S | Description |
| nitens Rendle | N,C,E,S | Description |
| nuda Schumach. | N,C,E | Description |
| pearsonii Stapf | E | Description |
| perrottetii (Kunth) Stapf | N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
| pseudodiagonalis Chiov. | N | Description |
| remotigluma (De Winter) Clayton | N,C | Description |
| sanguinalis (L.) Scop. | N,W,C,E,S | Description |
| scalarum (Schweinf.) Chiov. | C,E | Description |
| setifolia Stapf | E | Description |
| ternata (A. Rich.) Stapf | N,W,C,E | Description |
| thouaresiana (Flüggé) A. Camus | N,C,S | Description |
| velutina (Forssk.) P. Beauv. | N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |