ABSTRACT
One species, tropical Africa, East Africa. Arundinoideae, Danthonieae, or Eragrostideae, annual, slender, herbaceous, auricles absent, ligule fringed or ciliate, plants bisexual, cleistogamous, delicate and open inflorescence paniculate, spikelets flattened, 2 glumes more or less equal or subequal, lemmas keeled and ciliate on margins, long flexuous awn, palea 2-nerved 2-keeled, 2 free and fleshy lodicules, 3 stamens, ovary glabrous, 2 stigmas, shade species, shady banks, hillsides, slopes, type
Habrochloa bullockii
C.E. Hubbard, see G.C. Wittstein,
Etymologisch-botanisches Handwörterbuch
. 2. 1852 and
Hooker’s Icones Plantarum
37: t. 3645. 1967, H. Genaust,
Etymologisches Wörterbuch der botanischen Pflanzennamen
. 32. Basel 1996.
