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 Angola: 2 taxa. |
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| Species | Provinces | Content |
| australis (Cav.) Trin. | CC,CU | Description |
| mauritianus Kunth | CC,CU,HI,LS,MO,NA | Description, Image |