Source:
SSA
Description:
Perennials, usually tufted, sometimes with runners. Culms with basal nodes. Leaves basal, sometimes cauline, ligulate; blade linear. lnflorescence capitate or digitate. Spikelets usually of many spirally imbricate glumes; lowest 1 or 2 glumes sterile, upper bisexual, fertile, uppermost with male florets or empty. Perianth of 0-6 bristles, retrorsely scabrid, rarely plumose. Stamens 1-3. Ovary sessile or with short gynophore. Style slender, elongate, rarely short, passing gradually into ovary, 2- or 3-branched, deciduous or sometimes persistent. Nutlet oblong or obovoid, biconvex or 3-angular. x = 5, 7, 8 (6, 9, 11) (aneuploids, high polyploidy).
Distribution:
Species +/- 20, mostly northern hemisphere, usually wet places; +/- 4 in sthn Afr., Northern Province, North-West, Gauteng, Mpumalanga, Free State, Swaziland, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Northern and Eastern Cape.
Classification:
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