Digitaria schmitzii Van Der Veken

Annual; culms 30–50 cm. high, erect or ascending.. Leaf-blades 10–25 cm. long, 1–7 mm. wide.. Inflorescence of (1–)2–6 subdigitate racemes; racemes 3–12 cm. long, the spikelets ternate on a winged rhachis with rounded or shallowly angular midrib.. Spikelets elliptic, 1.5–1.8 mm. long; glumes absent, or the upper represented by a little hyaline cuff; lower lemma as long as the spikelet, 5-nerved, densely covered with short turgidly clavate hairs; fruit dorsally compressed, chestnut brown.