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Digitaria Haller

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Digitaria Haller, Hist. Stirp. Helv. 244 (1768)
Digitaria Haller

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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Haller
Haller
1768
244
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Digitaria Haller
genus
Digitaria

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Digitaria

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Digitaria Haller

Annual or perennial, often stoloniferous tufts, of moderate height or low-growing. Leaf-sheath submembranous or stiffly striate, rounded, midrib obvious above. Ligule membranous. Leaf-blade flat to involute, flaccid. Culm erect, or decumbent and rooting at nodes. Inflorescence a panicle of digitate or subdigitate racemes on a short rachis. Racemes slender, secund; rachis 3-angled, or flattened and winged, usually serrate, persistent, bearing along the two abaxial sides, alternate, appressed groups of 2, 3, or rarely solitary spikelets, usually one spikelet of each group ± sessile, and 1-2 shortly pedicelled; spikelets disarticulating below glumes and falling entire at maturity. Spikelets dorsally compressed, lanceolate or elliptic, ± planoconvex, variously pubescent, rarely glabrous, awnless, 2-flowered; lower floret Ø, upper floret ☿. Lower glume minute or 0, upper ≤ lemma of lower floret. Lower floret: lemma usually = spikelet; palea usually a minute scale, or 0. Upper floret: lemma chartaceous to cartilaginous, nerveless, or faintly 3-nerved, glabrous, hyaline margins enfolding palea; palea of similar texture to lemma, nerveless, or faintly 2-nerved; lodicules cuneate, 3-nerved; callus 0; stamens 3; ovary apex glabrous, styles 2, apical, shortly connate below; caryopsis planoconvex, embryo large, to ⅓ length of caryopsis, hilum punctiform.

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Digitaria Haller
Cook Islands
Digitaria Haller
Fiji
Digitaria Haller
French Polynesia
Digitaria Haller
Kiribati
Digitaria Haller
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Digitaria Haller
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Digitaria Haller
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Digitaria Haller
Tonga
Digitaria Haller
United Kingdom

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1 January 2000
22 January 2014
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