Zonotriche
Description:
Tufted perennials up to 1.5 m high; culms slender, erect or ascending. Inflorescence a panicle bearing spikelets in triads with connate pedicels; peduncle developing a fragile hook-like flexure at maturity and triads falling entire. Spikelets brown, upper florets eventually disarticulating; lower glume ? to as long as spikelet, villose with tubercle-based white or golden hairs; lower lemma 5-nerved; upper lemma with or without hair tufts, bilobed, with a persistent geniculate awn; callus short, broadly rounded; palea keels with or without narrow wings, but these not clasped by the lemma.
Distribution:
Species 3, central Africa; sthn trop. Afr. 2, Angola, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Mozambique.
Source:
SSTA
Synonym(s):
Piptostachya (C.E.Hubb.) Phipps; Simon: 23 (1971) as synonym.