Digitaria ischaemum (Schreb.) Muhl.
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Digitaria ischaemum (Schreb.) Muhl. (1817)
Digitaria ischaemum (Schreb.) Muhl.
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Digitaria ischaemum (Schreb.) Muhl.
Summer annuals, forming loose or compact dark purple-green tufts. Leaf-sheath submembranous, striate, glabrous or rarely with a few hairs on margins, light green, folded. Ligule 1-1.5-(2) mm, membranous, glabrous, ± truncate, erose. Leaf-blade 3-6 cm × 3-5 mm, lanceolate, ± rounded at base, glabrous; margins minutely scabrid throughout with a few long hairs near ligule. Culm 7-20-(30) cm, slender, geniculate-ascending, spreading or prostrate, internodes glabrous. Racemes 2-4-(5), 2.5-10 cm, subdigitate, very slender, spreading at maturity; rachis flat, 0.5-1 mm wide, narrowly winged, sparsely long-hairy at base, margins finely scabrid; pedicels ± 3-angled, rarely flattened, sparsely, finely prickle-toothed. Spikelets c. 2 mm, close-set in pairs or triplets, shortly, unequally pedicelled, elliptic or oblong-elliptic, hairs minute, numerous, swollen-tipped. Lower glume 0, or a minute scarious rim, upper c. 2 mm, ≈ spikelet, submembranous, 3-(5)-nerved, internerves with bands of dense short fine hairs. Lower floret: lemma = spikelet, submembranous, 5-nerved, nerves glabrous, outer internerves sparsely to densely fine-hairy; palea minute. Upper floret: lemma = spikelet, dark chestnut-brown, glabrous, acute, margins wide, hyaline, enfolding palea; palea of similar texture to lemma, margins widened below to enfold caryopsis; anthers 0.4-0.7 mm; stigmas purple; caryopsis c. 1.5 × 0.8 mm, oblong.
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Digitaria ischaemum (Schreb.) Muhl.
Digitaria ischaemum (Schreb.) Muhl.
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1 January 2000
17 February 2016