A distributing unit for granular material such as seed grains is disclosed, inparticular a seedingunit of a distributing/seeding machine. The unit comprises a housing with atleast one inletopening and an outlet opening and a rotating conveying device with at leastone rotatingconveying element for taking hold of the granular material, which conveyingelement is arrangedor extends axially with respect to the housing. The grains are held bycentrifugal forces on aninner lateral surface region of the housing, are crowded together there, arealigned with respect toone another and are ordered in a line/rowed at an angle which corresponds toan angular positionbetween the lateral surface and the radial conveying element, such that ineach case only onegrain at the end of the row extends in a predefined path along the lateralsurface and leaves theoutlet opening tangentially.
