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Inflorescence a solitary raceme with broad colourful foliaceous rhachis, bearing paired spikelets. Spikelets elliptic-oblong. Inferior glume suppressed. Superior glume and inferior lemma as long as spikelet, 3-nerved, the laterals thickened and bearing a dense tuft of hair near the base, bilobed with an awn from the sinus. Superior lemma cartilaginous with flat thin margins enfolding and concealing palea, acute. Worldwide: Species 1, in Mozambique. Mozambique: 1 taxon. |
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Species | FZ divisions | Content |
foliacea (Clayton) Clayton[End] | N |
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