Perennials (ours). Inflorescence an open or contracted panicle with slender branches. Spikelets 1-flowered, bisexual; glumes 0 or rudimentary; sterile lemmas 0; fertile lemma boat-shaped, strongly keeled, 5-nerved, awnless or tapering to a short awn-like structure. Stamens 6. Derivation of name: after Johann Daniel Leers, 1727-1774, German botanist Worldwide: 17 species in tropical and warm temperate regions Botswana: 4 taxa. |
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| denudata Launert | Description | |
| friesii Melderis | ||
| hexandra Sw. | N | Description, Image |
| tisserantii (A.Chev.) Launert |