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Annuals or perennials. Inflorescence a panicle, often with whorled primary branches. Spikelets nearly always glabrous, awnless. Ligule a line of hairs. Inflorescence an open or contracted panicle. Spikelets 1-flowered. Glumes membranous, the upper usually longer than the lower. Lemma 1(-3)-nerved, without awns, usually shining; palea as long as lemma or a little shorter. Grain with free pericarp. Fruit rounded or truncate at tip, not beaked. Sporobolus species may resemble species of Eragrostis but are always 1-flowered whereas Eragrostis species have more than 1 floret per spikelet. Worldwide: c. 160 species in the tropics and subtropics Botswana: 20 taxa. |
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| acinifolius Stapf | Description | |
| africanus (Poir.) A. Robyns & Tournay | N | Description |
| albicans (Nees ex Trin.) Nees | N,SE | |
| bechuanicus Gooss.[NrEnd][DD] | N,SW,SE | Description |
| consimilis Fresen. | SE | Description, Image |
| cordofanus (Steud.) Coss. | N | Description |
| coromandelianus (Retz.) Kunth | N,SW | |
| festivus Hochst. ex A. Rich. | N,SE | Description, Image |
| fimbriatus (Trin.) Nees | N,SW,SE | Description |
| ioclados (Trin.) Nees | N,SW,SE | Description |
| macranthelus Chiov. | ||
| myrianthus Benth. | Description | |
| natalensis (Steud.) T. Durand & Schinz | ||
| nitens Stent | SE | Description |
| panicoides A. Rich. | N,SE | Description, Image |
| paniculatus (Trin.) T. Durand & Schinz | ||
| pyramidalis P. Beauv. | N | Description, Image |
| spicatus (Vahl) Kunth | N,SE | Description |
| stapfianus Gand. | Description, Image | |
| virginicus (L.) Kunth | Description, Image |
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