This monograph includes the tribe Paniceae comprising the genera
Brachiaria, Cenchrus, Echinochloa, Eriochloa, Oplismenus, Panicum,
Paspalidium, Paspalam, Penniseum and Setaria. For the recognition and
circumscription of the tribes, genera and species, very limited
characters of the floral parts are used, whose validity and significance
is important. The absence of a valid taxonomic treatment of these genera
make it necessary to revise the past work and to carry out further
research on new aspects. This study was carried out to clear up the
taxonomic position of a number of taxa. The present account includes the
comprehensive study of the morphological, anatomical and palynological
aspects and elemental dispersive spectrophotometer analysis (EDS) of 10
genera of tribe Paniceae present from Pakistan.