Micrachne Peterson, Romasch & Herrera

Taxon 64,3: 445 (2015).- Type: Micrachne fulva (Stapf) Peterson

Description:

* Caespitose perennials, sometimes annuals . Culms erect to geniculately ascending. Leaves flat or involute, glabrous or sparsely hairy, occasionally setaceous; ligule a short ciliate membrane.

* Inflorescence paniculate usually with a single terminal spikelike branch or sometimes with 3-5 (2-7) digitately inserted branches.

* Spikelets 1-flowered, laterally compressed, golden-brown to bronze (herbarium specimens), the single fertile floret bearing a rachilla extension. Glumes longer than the floret, chartaceous to thinly coriaceous, glabrous or sparsely hairy, completely enclosing the floret. Lemma 3-veined, hyaline to membranous, folded along the midvein, apex obtuse to truncate or slightly emarginated, often short mucronate; palea little shorter than lemma, hairy or glabrous. Stamens 3. Caryopsis ellipsoid.

Genus with 4 African species, often on rock outcrops.

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