Sehima

Annuals or perennials. Inflorescence a single terminal raceme; rhachis internodes and pedicels stoutly linear to subclavate. Spikelets markedly different; the sessile spikelet fertile, the pedicellate male or barren. Sessile spikelet: callus obtuse, inserted into the concave apex of the internode; lower glume coriaceous, laterally 2-keeled or lyrate, 2-fid at apex; upper glume awned; lower floret male with a palea present; upper (fertile) lemma awned from between the sinus. Pedicellate spikelet large, dorsally flattened, distinctively lyrate-nerved.

Sehima is a genus of mostly Asian and African plants in the grass family.

The generic name is derived from the Arabic سحيم sæḥīm ('black'), local name of the type species in its native Yemen.

Species Sehima galpinii Stent - Angola, Mozambique, KwaZulu-Natal, Eswatini, Mpumalanga, Limpopo Sehima ischaemoides Forssk. - drier parts of Asia and Africa from Cape Verde to Limpopo to India Sehima nervosum (Rottler) Stapf - eastern Africa from Eritrea to Mozambique; southern Asia from Yemen to southern China to Java; New Guinea to northern Australia Sehima notatum (Hack.) A.Camus - Uttar Pradesh Sehima sulcatum (Hack.) A.Camus - Myanmar, Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh formerly included

see Andropogon Andropterum Eremochloa Ischaemum Pogonachne Thelepogon Triplopogon

Sehima beccarii - Ischaemum beccarii Sehima ciliare - Eremochloa ciliaris Sehima elegans - Thelepogon elegans Sehima racemosum - Pogonachne racemosa Sehima ramosissimum - Triplopogon ramosissimus Sehima spathiflorum - Triplopogon ramosissimus Sehima textilis - Andropogon textilis Sehima variegatum - Andropterum stolzii