假淡竹葉屬

Annual; leaf-blades broadly linear to lanceolate, narrowed at base. Inflorescence a panicle, or the primary branches reduced to racems. Spikelets breaking up at maturity, 1-4-flowered plus rhachilla extension bearing a rudimentary floret, the upper florets decreasing in size and often with reflexed bristles; lemmas apiculate; stamens 2.

West Africa from Guinee to Angola; tropical Asia and Pacific islands.

Species 4. Forest. The lemma bristles seve as a dispersal device.

Lower Taxon

• Centotheca lappacea (L.) Desv.

Related Synonym(s):

• Centotheca lappacea subsp. inermis (Rendle) T. Koyama = Centotheca lappacea (L.) Desv.
• Centotheca lappacea var. inermis Rendle = Centotheca lappacea (L.) Desv.
• Centotheca malabarica var. inermis (Rendle) Honda = Centotheca lappacea (L.) Desv.