Compilation
Leptothrium senegalense

Short-lived perennial forming tough bunches, up to 75 cm high. Inflorescence 6–11 cm long, the racemelets ± distant on the wavy main axis, brightly coloured purple and light green; peduncle cuneate, flattened, 1–4 mm long, ciliate with hooked hairs on the margins. First spikelet: lower (outer) glume 3–6.5 mm long, the margins ciliate with hooked hairs above; upper glume 3–4 mm long, densely tuberculate and often spinulose, pectinate with hooked spines near one margin, rostrate at the tip. Second spikelet: lower (outer) glume 2.5–4 mm long, tuberculate-spinulose; upper glume 3–4.5 mm long, tuberculate-spinulose, rostrate above and with a crest of hooked prickles.