Exotheca

Andersson
Description: 
Densely caespitose perennials. Leaves linear; sheath produced at mouth into narrow auricles; ligule scarious, adnate to sheath-auricles .Inflorescence composed of paired racemes, pairs each subtended by a spatheole and gathered into a scanty false panicle; racemes short, upper raceme borne on a very long raceme-base, its basal spikelets at
Distribution: 
Monotypic genus: Exotheca abyssinica (Hochst. ex A.Rich.) Andersson, Vietnam, and trop. Africa; sthn trop. Afr.: Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique.
Source: 
SSTA
Classification: 
POACEAE

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