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PSEUDOBRACHIARIA Launert
Annuals or perennials. Inflorescence of racemes along a central axis; spikelets single and adaxial, paired or rarely in fascicles. Spikelets plump, obtuse to acute; sometimes the lowest internode elongated and then forming a short stipe (B. nigropedata) lower glume usually shorter than spikelet; lower lemma awnless (rarely in B. nigropedata and B. serrata with a short awn point); upper lemma as long as the spikelet, coriaceous to crustaceous; apex acute, obtuse or rarely mucronulate. Worldwide: c. 100 species in warm regions, mainly Africa Mozambique: 13 taxa. The larvae of the following species of insect eat species of this genus:
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| bovonei (Chiov.) Robyns | T | Description, Image |
| brizantha (A. Rich.) Stapf | N,MS,M | Description, Image |
| chusqueoides (Hack.) Clayton | MS,M | |
| deflexa (Schumach.) Robyns | N,Z,T,MS,M | Description, Image |
| dictyoneura (Fig. & De Not.) Stapf | Z,M | Description |
| leersioides (Hochst.) Stapf | ? | |
| leucacrantha (K. Schum.) Stapf | ? | Description |
| nigropedata (Ficalho & Hiern) Stapf | GI,M | Description, Image |
| ramosa (L.) Stapf | T,GI | Description |
| reptans (L.) C.A. Gardner & C.E. Hubb. | GI | |
| serrata (Thunb.) Stapf | MS | Description, Image |
| umbellata (Trin.) Clayton | Description | |
| xantholeuca (Schinz) Stapf | MS,M | Description, Image |
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