Digitaria didactyla Willd.

Weakly tufted perennial 150-300 mm high; stoloniferous or with knotty rhizomes, mat forming; culms may be branched and rooting at lower nodes. Leaf blade 25-50 x 1.0-1.8 mm, ligule 0.5-0.8 mm long. Inflorescence digitate, of 2-4 racemes 30-65(100) mm long; rachis triquetrous, winged, glabrous, margins scaberulous; pedicel triangular, glabrous with scaberulous margins; spikelets paired. Spikelet (2.0)2.5-2.8 mm long; lower glume short, 0.2-0.5 mm long, triangular-ovate, usually truncate, membranous; upper glume shorter than spikelet, partly exposing upper lemma, 3-nerved, pubescent between nerves; internode absent; lower lemma as long as spikelet, 7-nerved, nerves smooth to scaberulous towards apex, two marginal tufts of hairs present; upper lemma yellow to pale brown or purple tinged; anthers 1.0-1.3 mm long.