Annuals or perennials. Inflorescence a panicle, often with whorled primary branches. Spikelets nearly always glabrous, awnless. Ligule a line of hairs. Inflorescence an open or contracted panicle. Spikelets 1-flowered. Glumes membranous, the upper usually longer than the lower. Lemma 1(-3)-nerved, without awns, usually shining; palea as long as lemma or a little shorter. Grain with free pericarp. Fruit rounded or truncate at tip, not beaked. Sporobolus species may resemble species of Eragrostis but are always 1-flowered whereas Eragrostis species have more than 1 floret per spikelet. Worldwide: c. 160 species in the tropics and subtropics Rwanda: 11 taxa. |
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| Species | Content | |
| africanus (Poir.) A. Robyns & Tournay | Description | |
| agrostoides Chiov. | ||
| festivus Hochst. ex A. Rich. | Description, Image | |
| ioclados (Trin.) Nees | Description | |
| mauritianus (Steud.) T. Durand & Schinz | Description | |
| mildbraedii Pilg. | ||
| molleri Hack. | Description, Image | |
| piliferus (Trin.) Kunth | Description | |
| pyramidalis P. Beauv. | Description, Image | |
| spicatus (Vahl) Kunth | Description | |
| stapfianus Gand. | Description, Image |