Gram. Pan.: 62 (1826).- Type: Wallich in Herb. Lindley, Nepal, Inde (holo- LE).
Arundinella ecklonii Nées, FI. Afr. Austr.: 80 (1841).- Type:
Regional litterature: FTA 10: 2 (1937); FWTA: 414 (1972); FTEA: 409 (1974); Fl. Guinée: 451 (2009); Pl. Sudan & S Sudan: 120 (2015)
Description:
* Caespitose perennial of 0.6-1.8 m high, basal innovations extravaginal. Culms erect, nodes pubescent. Leaves stiff, linear to convolute, 20-35 cm long and 3-10 mm wide, coriaceous; ligule a glabrous membrane of 1 mm long; sheath longet than the internodes.
* Inflorescence a contracted or open panicle of 10-40 cm long, contracted about the primary branches; branches scaberulous. Spikelets in pairs on filiform pedicels.
* Spikelets lanceolate, 4-6 mm long, disarticulating below each floret; callus bearded, obtuse with hairs of 0.5-1 mm long. Lower glume lanceolate, 3-veined, 4 mm long; upper glume ovate, 4-5 mm long; internode of rhacheole 0.5 mm long. Lower lemma obtuse, 3-nerved, 3 mm long; upper glume 2.5 mm long, whitish to dark brown, 2-fid with a geniculate awn of 6 mm long from the sinus
Distribution West Africa: Senegal, Guinea, Mali, Cameroon, CAR.
Distribution world-wide: E and southern Africa, Asia.