Digitaria stricta Roth

Species

Angiosperms > Poales > Poaceae > Digitaria

Characteristics

Annual. Culms tufted, slender, erect, 20–40 cm tall. Leaf sheaths loose, keeled, glabrous or papillose-pilose, especially at mouth; leaf blades linear, soft, 5–20 × 0.3–0.5 cm, adaxial surface tuberculate-hispid in lower 1/3, apex finely acuminate; ligule 1–1.5 mm. Inflorescence subdigitate, axis 1–3 cm; racemes 2–8 or more, 5–12 cm; spikelets ternate; rachis triquetrous, narrowly winged, margins scabrous; pedicels scabrous, tips slightly dilated with overtopping spicules up to 1 mm. Spikelets elliptic, 1.2–1.4 mm, hairs clavate, rarely glabrous; lower glume absent; upper glume variable, 1/4–1/2 as long as spikelet, rarely vestigial or absent, veinless or 1–3-veined; lower lemma slightly shorter than spikelet, 3–5-veined, intervein spaces and margins sparsely pubescent to villous; upper lemma chestnut brown to purplish black with a paler, apiculate, slightly protruding apex. Anthers ca. 0.3 mm. Fl. and fr. autumn.
Life form annual
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.3 - 0.4
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Hardiness (USDA) 8-12

Usage

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Cultivation

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Distribution

Digitaria stricta world distribution map, present in Bangladesh, China, Indonesia, Myanmar, Nepal, Oman, Pakistan, and Thailand

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:399164-1
WFO ID wfo-0000864437
COL ID 363T9
BDTFX ID 20570
INPN ID 93814
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Synonyms

Cynodon pilosus Digitaria glabrescens Digitaria stricta Panicum denudatum Panicum puberulum Reimaria puberula Syntherisma royleana Digitaria puberula Digitaria royleana Panicum concinnum Panicum orthum Panicum pseudosetaria Paspalum concinnum Paspalum trachyanthum Agrostis pilosa Digitaria concinna Digitaria denudata Panicum kunthii Syntherisma puberulum Paspalum pseudosetaria Digitaria stricta var. denudata Digitaria stricta var. glabrescens Setaria stricta Panicum violascens var. denuta Digitaria stricta var. stricta Paspalum royleanum