Digitaria seriata Stapf

Loosely or densely tufted perennial 500-1200 mm high; rhizomes thick, knotty, branched, woody; stolons present; base bulbous, densely covered with hairy scales or cataphylls. Leaf blade 100-350 x 3-9 mm. Inflorescence digitate to subdigitate, of 3-12 racemes 100-230 mm long; rachis triquetrous, broadly winged, glabrous, margins scaberulous; pedicel triangular, glabrous, scaberulous; spikelets paired. Spikelet 2.5-3.5 mm long, densely hairy; lower glume a triangular scale; upper glume 3-nerved, hairy; internode absent; lower lemma as long as spikelet, 7-nerved, nerves evenly spaced or with broader central interspaces, smooth or slightly scaberulous, hairy; hairs 1 mm long, purple to silvery, extending beyond spikelet; upper lemma as long as spikelet, partly exposed, brown to purplish; anthers 1.5-1.7 mm.