Description
Perennial herbs with short woody rhizome.
Leaves basal and cauline, usually narrow.
Inflorescence paniculate.
Flowers in each spikelet 1-2(-3), bisexual, fertile.
Stamens 3, rarely 2;
Distribution
Africa present, Asia-Tropical: New Guinea present, Japan present, circum-South Pacific present
In KÜKENTHAL’S circumscription the genus comprises 11 spp., 9 of them endemic in Africa, 1 in Japan, and 1 circum-South Pacific, in Malesia: New Guinea.
Notes
LEVYNS() refers the S. African spp. to the genera Asterochaete and Trianoptiles.
Citation
BOECK. 1874: pp. 265-273. – In: Linnaea
KÜK 1939 – In: Fedde, Rep. 47: 108
