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Annuals or perennials. Spikelets 1-flowered, disarticulating above the glumes, in terminal, lax or contracted, panicles; glumes persistent, narrow, usually 1-nerved. Lemma narrow, with hard callus at base, with or without a beak or twisted column; articulation present or 0, usually visible as a transverse darker line on the body of the lemma, occurring at the apex of the lemma or at the apex of the column; awns 3 (1 central, 2 lateral) or rarely 1, glabrous. Worldwide: c. 330 species in warm regions of the world Botswana: 26 taxa. |
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| adscensionis L. | N,SW | Description, Image |
| aequiglumis Hack. | Description | |
| barbicollis Trin. & Rupr. | SE | Description |
| bipartita (Nees) Trin. & Rupr. | ||
| canescens Henrard | SE | Description |
| congesta Roem. & Schult. | N,SW,SE | Description, Image |
| diffusa Trin. subsp. burkei (Stapf) Melderis | Description | |
| effusa Henrard | ||
| hordeacea Kunth | N,SE | Description |
| junciformis Trin. & Rupr. subsp. junciformis | N | |
| junciformis Trin. & Rupr. subsp. welwitschii (Rendle) Melderis | Description | |
| meridionalis Henrard | N,SW,SE | Description |
| mollissima Pilg. subsp. argentea (Schweick.) Melderis | ||
| mollissima Pilg. subsp. mollissima | N | |
| pilgeri Henrard | N | Description |
| rhiniochloa Hochst. | N | Description, Image |
| scabrivalvis Hack. subsp. borumensis (Henrard) Melderis | N | |
| scabrivalvis Hack. subsp. contracta (De Winter) Melderis | N | |
| scabrivalvis Hack. subsp. scabrivalvis | N | |
| stipitata Hack. subsp. graciliflora (Pilg.) Melderis | SE | Description |
| stipitata Hack. subsp. robusta (Stent & J.M. Rattray) Melderis | N,SW,SE | Description |
| stipitata Hack. subsp. spicata (De Winter) Melderis | N,SE | Description |
| stipitata Hack. subsp. stipitata | SW | Description |
| stipoides Lam. | N | Description |
| vestita Thunb. | Description | |
| wildii Melderis[End?][DD] | N |
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