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Annuals or perennials. Inflorescence a panicle, often with whorled primary branches. Spikelets nearly always glabrous, awnless. Ligule a line of hairs. Inflorescence an open or contracted panicle. Spikelets 1-flowered. Glumes membranous, the upper usually longer than the lower. Lemma 1(-3)-nerved, without awns, usually shining; palea as long as lemma or a little shorter. Grain with free pericarp. Fruit rounded or truncate at tip, not beaked. Sporobolus species may resemble species of Eragrostis but are always 1-flowered whereas Eragrostis species have more than 1 floret per spikelet. Worldwide: c. 160 species in the tropics and subtropics Mozambique: 23 taxa. |
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| acinifolius Stapf | GI | Description |
| africanus (Poir.) A. Robyns & Tournay | GI,M | Description |
| centrifugus (Trin.) Nees | Description | |
| congoensis Franch. | MS | Description |
| consimilis Fresen. | Z,T,GI,M | Description, Image |
| cordofanus (Steud.) Coss. | T | Description |
| festivus Hochst. ex A. Rich. | N,Z,T,MS,GI | Description, Image |
| fimbriatus (Trin.) Nees | N,Z,MS,GI,M | Description |
| ioclados (Trin.) Nees | T,MS,GI,M | Description |
| mauritianus (Steud.) T. Durand & Schinz | Z,MS,GI | Description |
| micranthus (Steud.) T. Durand & Schinz | N,MS | Description |
| molleri Hack. | N,T | Description, Image |
| myrianthus Benth. | MS | Description |
| nitens Stent | GI,M | Description |
| panicoides A. Rich. | N,T,M | Description, Image |
| piliferus (Trin.) Kunth | N | Description |
| pyramidalis P. Beauv. | N,T,MS,GI,M | Description, Image |
| sanguineus Rendle | N,Z,MS | Description, Image |
| stapfianus Gand. | T,MS,M | Description, Image |
| subtilis Kunth | MS,GI,M | Description, Image |
| tenuissimus (Schrank) Kuntze | ||
| virginicus (L.) Kunth | N,Z,MS,GI,M | Description, Image |
| welwitschii Rendle | Description |
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