Mostly annual grasses with a false raceme like a bottle-brush. Spikelets 1-flowered; glumes subequal, 1-nerved, tipped by a long slender awn (that of the lower glume usually the longer). Lemma hyaline, 1-nerved, awnless. Worldwide: 10 species in the Old World tropics Angola: 3 taxa. |
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| Species | Provinces | Content |
| leptopus Pilg. | HA,HI,MA,MO,NA | Description |
| patens Gand. | CN,CU,HA,HI,UI | Description, Image |
| vaginata Hack. | CC,CU,NA | Description |