Kew Bull. 20: 266 (1972).- Type : Adam 12754, Guinea (holo- K).
Regional litterature: FWTA: 389 (1972); Gram. Togo: 215 (1983); Gram. Cameroun: 128 (1992); Fl. Guinée: 459 (2009).
Description:
* Perennial with dense greyish green tufts of 0.8-1 m tall. Culms straight, simple. Leaves linear, stiff, mainly basal, 20 cm long and 3 mm wide, glabrous, longly attenuate; ligule a very narrow rim of hairs.
* Inflorescence an ovate, pale green violet loose panicle of 10-20 cm long and 5-7 cm wide. Branches 5-8 cm long, distant, the pedicels hairlike, spikelets trembling
* Spikelets glabrous, violet, green towards the center. Glumes acute, 1 mm long. Lemmas: two lower ones steriles, 1.5-2 mm long, without palea; 6-7 upper lemmas 3 mm long; palea hyaline, 2.2 mm long. Anthers violet, 0.6 mm long. Achene dark-brown, wattled surface, 0.6 mm long and 0.3 mm wide.
Note: E cenolepis and E. plurigluma closely related.
Distribution West Africa and world-wide: Guinea, Sierra Leone, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon.