in Sitz. Akad. Wiss. Wien 89:131 (1884); Gen. Gram.: 268 (1986).
Chloachne Stapf, in Hook., Ic. PI. 32: t. 3072 (1916); Gram. Afr. Trop. 1: 235 (1962).
Description:
* Trailing perennials. Leaves linear to lanceolate.
* Inflorescence in several lax, 1-sided racemes spaced along a central axis, bearingpaired spikelets or compound, with spikelets on short side branches.
* Spikelts laterally compressed. Glumes unequal, 1/3-3/4 the length of the spikelet, acute to mucronate or awned. Lower lemma similar, equalling the spikelet; upper lemma laterally compressed, membranous to cartilaginous, the margins flat or inrolled.
About 20 species of forest grasses, one in tropical Agrica, the others endemic in Madagascar.