G.337. Leptochloa P. Beauv.

DIPLACHNE P. Beauv.

Description of the genus

Annuals or perennials. Inflorescence of several to many racemes, arranged on a central axis. Spikelets 1-several-flowered, laterally flattened, disarticulating above the glumes and between the florets. Glumes persistent, membranous, 1-nerved, shorter than the spikelet. Lemmas 3-nerved, obtuse or 2-toothed at the apex, sometimes mucronate, rarely with a short awn.

Worldwide: c. 40 species throughout the tropics and in warm temperate parts of America and Australia

Botswana: 6 taxa.

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Species	FZ divisions	Content
chinensis (L.) Nees	N,SE	Description, Image
eleusine (Nees) Cope & N. Snow
fusca (L.) Kunth.	N,SW,SE	Description
gigantea (Launert) Cope	N
panicea (Retz.) Ohwi		Description
uniflora Hochst. ex A. Rich.	N	Description

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Flora of Burundi: Leptochloa
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Flora of Zimbabwe: Leptochloa

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African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Leptochloa
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Tropicos: Leptochloa
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