Heteropholis

C.E.Hubb.
Description: 
Perennials arising from a short scaly rhizome. Leaf blade flat, gradually tapering to a flexuouse apex; ligule shortly membranous. Inflorescence a single axillary raceme; racemes cylindric or slightly dorsally compressed; internodes thickened, clavate, fixed to adjacent pedicel. Sessile spikelet
Distribution: 
Species 4, Indo-China, Philippines, and trop. Africa; sthn trop. Afr. 1: Heteropholis sulcata (Stapf) C.E.Hubb., Angola, Zambia, Malawi.
Source: 
SSTA
Classification: 
POACEAE

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