Description:
Perennials with short, oblique rhizome; culms usually erect with leaves confined to lower ?. Leaves: lowermost sheaths densely imbricate, loose, persistent, irregularly splitting; leaf blades flat, linear-lanceolate, glaucous, rigid, narrowed at apex into a hard blunt point. Inflorescence a spiciform head of numerous short, closely spaced racemes on an elongated axis. Spikelets 2- or 3-flowered; second floret male or sterile; third floret reduced to an awn, laterally compressed, alternate in 2 rows on a tough axis, shortly pedicellate, disarticulating above glumes; glumes subequal, 1-nerved, membranous, keeled, as long as spikelet and enclosing florets, shortly awned; fertile lemma much shorter than glumes, membranous, entire and acute at apex, with a long flexuous terminal awn. Caryopsis fusiform.
Distribution:
Monotypic genus: Pogonochloa greenwayi C.E.Hubb., known only from Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Source:
SSTA
Classification:
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