Coelachne

R.Br.
Description: 
Mat-forming perennials; culms up to 0.2 m high, ascending from a creeping base and rooting at nodes. Leaf blades narrowly lanceolate; ligule a line of hairs or absent. Inflorescence a sparse panicle, sometimes spike-like. Spikelet 2-flowered. Florets dissimilar, the lower bisexual, the upper female, gaping at maturity, separated by a slender internode. Glumes persistent, subequal, ?
Distribution: 
Species 10, Old World tropics; sthn trop. Afr. 2, Angola, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Mozambique.
Source: 
SSTA
Classification: 
POACEAE

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