Mostly annual grasses with a false raceme like a bottle-brush. Spikelets 1-flowered; glumes subequal, 1-nerved, tipped by a long slender awn (that of the lower glume usually the longer). Lemma hyaline, 1-nerved, awnless. Worldwide: 10 species in the Old World tropics Botswana: 4 taxa. |
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| indica (L.) Kuntze | Image | |
| leptopus Pilg. | N | Description |
| patens Gand. | N,SW,SE | Description, Image |
| vaginata Hack. | N | Description |