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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 Botswana: 12 taxa. The larvae of the following species of insect eat species of this genus:
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| arrecta (T. Durand & Schinz) Stent | N | Description, Image |
| brizantha (A. Rich.) Stapf | Description, Image | |
| deflexa (Schumach.) Robyns | N,SW | Description, Image |
| dictyoneura (Fig. & De Not.) Stapf | N | Description |
| dura Stapf | Description | |
| eruciformis (J.E. Sm.) Griseb. | N,SW,SE | Description |
| glomerata (Stapf) A. Camus | SW,SE | |
| grossa Stapf | N,SW | Description |
| marlothii (Hackel) Stent | N,SW | |
| nigropedata (Ficalho & Hiern) Stapf | N,SW,SE | Description, Image |
| serrata (Thunb.) Stapf | Description, Image | |
| xantholeuca (Schinz) Stapf | N | Description, Image |
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