Digitaria stewartiana Bor

Species

Angiosperms > Poales > Poaceae > Digitaria

Characteristics

Annual. Culms tufted, slender, decumbent at base, ascending, 15–30 cm tall. Leaf sheaths glabrous; leaf blades up to 6 × 0.5 cm, glabrous, base subrounded, margins scabrous, apex acuminate; ligule 1–1.5 mm. Inflorescence subdigitate; racemes 2–3, 4–5 cm; spikelets ternate; rachis ribbonlike, broadly winged, midrib triquetrous; pedicels terete, scabrous, tips cupuliform. Spikelets elliptic, 1.8–2 mm, glabrous; lower glume usually absent; upper glume ca. 4/5 as long as spikelet, hyaline, translucent, glabrous, 3-veined, broadly obtuse; lower lemma purplish, as long as spikelet, 5-veined with 3 central veins close together and outer 2 marginal, veins connected at tip; upper lemma purplish brown at maturity. Anthers ca. 0.5 mm. Fl. and fr. summer–autumn.
Life form annual
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.23 - 0.3
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Usage

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Cultivation

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Distribution

Digitaria stewartiana world distribution map, present in China and Pakistan

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:399155-1
WFO ID wfo-0000864431
COL ID 363SZ
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Synonyms

Digitaria stewartiana Digitaria ischaemum subsp. stewartiana