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Annual or perennial herbs. Culms ± triangular, leafy. Leaves linear to narrowly oblong. Sheaths closed. Spikelets bearing flowers of one or both sexes; the bisexual spikelets with one basal female and 1-few males above; female spikelet with 1 basal female and 1-2 empty scales or none, above; male spikelets with 1-numerous male flowers. Flowers unisexual, solitary in axils of the glumes, the lower 2-4 glumes empty. Perianth bristles 0. Male flowers consisting of 1-3 stamens. Female flowers with 3 stigmas, not enclosed in a utricle. Nutlet often white, grey or ± black, borne on a hypogynium. Hypogynium often triangular, widened out into a simple or 3-lobed disk or (rarely) a cupule or almost 0. Worldwide: 200 species in tropical and warm regions Mozambique: 19 taxa. |
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| achtenii De Wild. | MS(other?) | |
| angusta Kunth | MS,GI,M | |
| bambariensis Cherm. var. bambariensis | MS | |
| bulbifera Hochst. ex A.Rich. | Description, Image | |
| catophylla C.B. Clarke | N,Z | Description, Image |
| distans Poir. | N | Description, Image |
| flexuosa Boeckeler | Description, Image | |
| foliosa Hochst. ex A.Rich. | Description, Image | |
| griegifolia (Ridl.) C.B. Clarke | Description, Image | |
| lagoensis Boeckeler | N | Description, Image |
| melanomphala Kunth | Description, Image | |
| nyasensis C.B. Clarke | MS | Description, Image |
| pachyrrhyncha Nelmes | MS | |
| pergracilis (Nees) Kunth | T | Description, Image |
| poiformis Retz. | Z,MS,GI,M | |
| racemosa Poir. | N,Z,T,MS | Description, Image |
| rehmannii C.B. Clarke | Description, Image | |
| sobolifer E.F. Franklin | M | |
| welwitschii C.B. Clarke | Description, Image |
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