Sokinochloa perrieri

Description

Sokinochloa, from Madagascar, is described as a new genus. It is characterised by the climbing habit and the determinate, capitulate inflorescence with the presence of subtending bracts; the internodes of the inflorescence are extremely short and there are three or more branches at each node borne at the same level, bearing sterile and fertile spikelets; the fertile spikelet consists of five glumes and one floret. Superficially the capitulate inflorescence resembles that of tropical and subtropical Asian Cephalostachyum Munro (Melocanninae Benth.), which has indeterminate inflorescences.