Digitaria comifera Pilg.

Tufted annual; culms 30–80 cm. high.. Leaf-blades 4–10 cm. long, 2–5 mm. wide.. Inflorescence of 2–7 subdigitate racemes; racemes 3–15 cm. long, the spikelets in clusters of 3–5 on a winged rhachis with sharply angular midrib.. Spikelets elliptic-oblong, 2.2–2.7 mm. long; lower glume a little membranous scale 0.2 mm. long, truncate or emarginate; upper glume ± 3/4 as long as the spikelet, 3-nerved, pubescent with clavate hairs; lower lemma as long as the spikelet, 7-nerved, the lateral nerves thickened, close together, ± accrescent or sometimes encrusted with white warts, the interspaces flanking the midrib hyaline and translucent (the brown colour of the fruit showing through), glabrous except for a few clavate hairs near the tip, or with scattered glistening bristles on the nerves, or rarely the nerves stiffly villous with long spreading bristles; fruit narrowly ovate, dorsally compressed, dark brown.