Citation: Stapf, Fl. Trop. Afr. 9:20 (1917).

Synonymy: Cynodon sect. Brachyachne Benth. in Benth. & Hook. f., Gen. Pl. 3:164 (1883).

Common name: None

Description:
Usually creeping perennials or annuals; leaf blade flat; ligule ciliate; inflorescence an umbel of very slender spikes; spikelets 1-flowered, small, sessile in 2 rows along one side of the flattened rhachis of each spike; rhachilla disarticulating above the glumes and sometimes produced as a rather long bristle; glumes narrow, acute or obtuse, subequal, 1-nerved, longer than the lemma; lemma awnless, folded and keeled, 3-nerved, long-haired on the nerves; palea 2-keeled, long-haired on the nerves.

Distribution:  About 10 species in Australia and tropical Africa.

Biology: No text

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