Hylebates

Chippind.
Description: 
Straggling annuals, rooting at lower nodes; culms up to 1.5 m high. Leaves: lamina broadly linear to narrowly lanceolate, cordate and amplexicaul at base; ligule a very short hairy membrane. Inflorescence a panicle with some or all branches whorled. Spikelets elliptic, dorsally compressed; lowerglume ovate, up to ? as long as spikelet and clasping its base; upper glume
Distribution: 
Species 2, eastern trop. Africa; sthn trop. Afr. 1: Hylebates cordatus Chippind., Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique. Easily mistaken for Panicum, but the superior floret indicates its affinity to Digitaria.
Source: 
SSTA
Classification: 
POACEAE

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