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Annuals or perennials. Leaves: lamina variable, from linear to ovate. Inflorescence a panicle, usually much branched, but occasionally ± contracted about the primary branches. Spikelets dorsally flattened, rarely slightly gibbous; lower glume usually shorter than (rarely equal to) the spikelet; upper glume as long as, the spikelet, often with a stipe-like internode between the glumes; lower floret male or barren; its lower lemma resembling the upper glume; upper lemma crustaceous; margin involute and clasping only the edges of the palea. A generally recognisable genus but the following could be confused with it: Brachiaria deflexa, Eriochloa meyeriana, Tricholaena monachne. Worldwide: 500 species or more in tropical and warm temperate zones Burundi: 28 taxa. Insects associated with this genus:
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| adenophorum K.Schum. | ||
| aequinerve Nees | ||
| atrosanguineum A. Rich. | Description | |
| brevifolium L. | Description | |
| calvum Stapf | ||
| chionachne Mez | Description, Image | |
| comorense Mez | ||
| deustum Thunb. | Description | |
| dregeanum Nees | Description, Image | |
| ecklonii Nees | Description | |
| eickii Mez | Description | |
| flacciflorum Stapf | ||
| funaense Vanderyst | ||
| gracilicaule Rendle | Description | |
| habrothrix Renvoize | ||
| heterostachyum Hack. | Description, Image | |
| hochstetteri Steud. | ||
| monticola Hook. f. | Description, Image | |
| nervatum (Franch.) Stapf | Description | |
| pansum Rendle | ||
| parvifolium Lam. | ||
| pectinellum Stapf | ||
| phragmitoides Stapf | Description | |
| pseudoracemosum Renvoize | ||
| pusillum Hook. f. | ||
| repens L. | Description | |
| subalbidum Kunth | Description, Image | |
| trichocladum Hack. ex K. Schum. | Description |
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