Morphological characteristics
Perennial and short (usually <1 m) grass, with hard and slender culms; glabrous ligule (<3.5 mm); panicles open to intermediately open; chlorophyllous veins across the length of the immature spikelets, mature spikelets 4.5-6.2 mm long and 1.6-2.8 mm wide; anthers 1.5-3.3 mm long.
Chromosome number
2n=2x=24 and 2n=4x=48
Genome
CC
Distribution
Central Africa Republic, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, and Uganda.
Habitat
Found in undisturbed forest, gallery or evergreen forest, or forest margins. Grows in damp or flooded sites such as pools, water holds, marshy places, streams or riverbanks and beds, in ditches. Grows in sandy or gray loamy clay soils. Found in shade or semi-shade.
