Fl. Indo-China 7: 364 (1922).- Type:
Anthisthiria villosa Lam., Tab. Encycl. 5: t. 841, f.3 (1799).
Description:
* Perennial with flabellate innovations, 2-3 m high. Culms robust. Leaves 0.5-1 m long and 6-12 mm wide; ligule a cililiolate membrane.
* Inflorescence a dense spathate panicle of 30-60 cm long composed of terminal and axillary single racemes subtended by spatheoles.Spatheoles lanceolate, 2.5-3.5 cm long, green. Racemes oblong, with 2-4 fertile spikelets; rhachis fragile, internodes linear. Four sterile subsessile spikelets enveloping the fetile spikelets as an involucre
* Sessile spikelets fertile elliptic, 7-8 mm long; callus cuneate, bearded. Lower glume oblong, coriaceous, keel-less, covered with red hairs. Upper lemma entire with an geniculate awn of 0-10 mm long; column twisted, puberulous. Pedicelled spikelets male, lanceolate, 10-12 mm long, glabrous. Homogamous spikelets 5-13 mm longrufously ciliate on the margins.
Distribution West Africa: introduced in Nigeria.
Distribution world-wide: SE Asea into New Guinea; introduced in C Africa.