FTA 9: 613 (1920).- Type: Hildebrandt 1954, Kenya, Mombassa (syn- K,W; isosyn- GOET); Hildebrandt 2022, Kenya, Mombassa (syn- K,W; isosyn- GOET,US).
Panicum haplocladum Stapf, Kew Bull. 1908, 58 (1908).
Regional litterature: FTEA: 560 (1982); Fl. Zambesiaca 10,3: 56 (1989); Fl. Ethiopia & Eritrea 7: 212, fig (1995); Pl. Sudan & S Sudan: 127 (2015);
Description:
* Rhizomatous perennial of 0,3-1 m high, Culms often wiry, Leaves 5-30 cm long and 3-10 (-20) mm wide, occasionally with purple bars; ligule absent or a fringe of hairs; sheaths glabrous.
* Inflorescence lanceolate, sometimes linear, 7-25 cm long; racemes 1-5 cm long and densely crowded with appressed spikelets.
* Spikelets elliptic to subglobose, small, 1.5-2.5 (-3) mm long, more or less hispid. Lower floret acute or with a short curved awn up to 5 (-15) mm long; upper lemma 1.5-2.3 mm long.
Distribution West Africa: South Sudan.
Distribution world-wide: Distribution world-wide: Ethiopia, Uganda, DRC and Somalia, Burundi, E and southern Africa.