Digitaria diversinervis Stapf

Perennial 200-350 mm high, mat forming; rhizome knotty, much branched; stolons present. Leaf blade 20-90 x 3-8 mm, ligule absent or minute, up to 0.7 mm long. Inflorescence digitate, of 2-5 racemes, 30-77 mm long; rachis triquetrous, narrowly winged, glabrous, margins scaberulous; pedicel triangular, glabrous or scaberulous, spikelets paired. Spikelet 3-4 mm long, hairy to glabrous; lower glume a well-developed scale up to 1 mm long, broadly ovate, truncate, nerveless or 1-nerved; upper glume 1/2-2/3 the spikelet length, 1(-3)-nerved, margins hairy; internode absent; lower lemma as long as spikelet, (7)9-11-nerved, nerves smooth to scaberulous towards apex, glabrous on back, hairy along margins or glabrous; upper lemma yellowish-green to pale or dark brown, partly exposed; anthers 1.6-1.8 mm long.