Rev. Bot. Appl. Agric. Trop. 14: 780 (1934).- Type:
Arundinella chevalieri (Camus & Hubbard) Roberty, Bull. IFAN. 17: 55 (1955).
Regional litterature: FWTA: 419 (1972); Pl. Vasc. Guiné-Bissau: 165 (2006); Fl. Guinea Bissau: 135 (2008); Fl. Guinée: 454 (2009).
Description:
* Tufted perennial of 1.8-2.7 m high; Culms erect; base swollen; nodes pubescent; basal leaf-sheaths densely and shortly silky-villous at the base. Leaves broadly linear, 30-60 cm long and 10-20 cm broad; margins cartilaginous, scabrid.
* Inflorescence in an open, narrowly ovate panicle, 20-30 cm long and 5 cm wide. Branches glandular, scabrid, up to 11 cm long, spikelets at the upper half. Pedicels 1-8 mm long.
* Spikelets oblong, 8-10 mm long, with purple or brown; callus truncate, 0.5 mm long, pubescent. Glumes glabrous, 3-nerved; lower glume ovate, 5-6 mm long, acuminate; upper glume as long as spikelet. Lower lemma 5-nerved, upper lemma 5 mm long, silky pilose, with a transverse line of hairs below each lateral lobe, keels of the upper lemma narrowly winged throughout, awned from the sinus; awn geniculate, 7-8 mm long, flattened below. Anthers 3.
Distribution West Africa: Senegal, Guinea Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone.
Distribution world-wide: Congo.