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  1. Family: Poaceae Barnhart
    1. Genus: Digitaria Haller

      1. Digitaria macroblephara (Hack. ex Schinz) Paoli

        This species is accepted, and its native range is NE. & E. Tropical Africa.

    [GB]
    Habit
    Perennial; caespitose. Rootstock evident. Stolons present. Butt sheaths pubescent. Culms geniculately ascending, or decumbent; 15-100 cm long; wiry. Culm-nodes bearded. Ligule an eciliate membrane. Leaf-blades 3-15 cm long; 1-5 mm wide. Leaf-blade apex filiform.
    Inflorescences
    Inflorescence composed of racemes. Racemes 2-11; digitate; unilateral; 2-20 cm long. Central inflorescence axis 0-3 cm long. Rhachis wingless; angular. Spikelets in pairs. Fertile spikelets pedicelled; 2 in the cluster. Pedicels unequal.
    Spikelets
    Spikelets comprising 1 basal sterile florets; 1 fertile florets; without rhachilla extension. Spikelets elliptic; dorsally compressed; 2.2-3.5 mm long; with hairs extending 0.5 mm beyond apex; falling entire.
    Fertile
    Spikelets comprising 1 basal sterile florets; 1 fertile florets; without rhachilla extension. Spikelets elliptic; dorsally compressed; 2.2-3.5 mm long; with hairs extending 0.5 mm beyond apex; falling entire.
    Glume
    Glumes two; dissimilar; shorter than spikelet; thinner than fertile lemma. Lower glume ovate; 0.2-0.3 mm long; 0.1 length of spikelet; membranous; without keels; 0 -veined. Lower glume lateral veins absent. Lower glume apex obtuse. Upper glume elliptic; 0.66-0.75 length of spikelet; membranous; without keels; 3 -veined. Upper glume surface villous. Upper glume apex acute.
    Florets
    Basal sterile florets barren; without significant palea. Lemma of lower sterile floret elliptic; 1 length of spikelet; membranous; 7 -veined; villous and setose, or setose; hairy between veins (glabrous beside midvein); acute. Fertile lemma elliptic; 2-3.5 mm long; cartilaginous; much thinner on margins; grey, or light brown; without keel. Lemma margins flat; covering most of palea. Lemma apex acute. Palea cartilaginous.
    Distribution
    Africa: northeast tropical and east tropical.
    Reference
    Paniceae. FTEA.

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    Distribution

    Native to:

    Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda

    Digitaria macroblephara (Hack. ex Schinz) Paoli appears in other Kew resources:

    Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status
    May 1, 1973 Greenway, P.J. [4471], Kenya K000386347
    May 1, 1973 Bogdan, A. [AB1602], Kenya K000386343
    May 1, 1973 Bogdan, A. [AB2092], Kenya K000386330
    May 1, 1973 Bogdan, A. [AB1371], Kenya K000386332
    May 1, 1973 Bogdan, A. [AB1873], Kenya K000386338
    May 1, 1973 Bogdan, A. [AB2117], Kenya K000386339
    May 1, 1973 Stewart, D.R.M. [456], Kenya K000386324
    May 1, 1973 Stewart, D.R.M. [448], Kenya K000386334
    May 1, 1973 Bally [B5191], Kenya K000386349
    May 1, 1973 West, O. [5213], Kenya K000386323
    May 1, 1973 Edwards, D.C. [1611], Kenya K000386326
    May 1, 1973 Edwards, D.C. [83], Kenya K000386335
    May 1, 1973 Edwards, D.C. [1671], Kenya K000386322
    May 1, 1973 Edwards, D.C. [1627], Kenya K000386333
    May 1, 1973 Champion, A.H. [T164], Kenya K000386325
    May 1, 1973 Wilson, G. [68], Kenya K000386336
    May 1, 1973 Swinderen, H. van [M137], Kenya K000386321
    Sep 1, 1926 Shantz, H.L. [872], Kenya K000386314
    Greenway, P.J. [9775], Kenya K000386356
    Greenway, P.J. [12789], Kenya K000386357
    Glover, P.E. [679], Kenya K000386344
    Glover, P.E. [334], Kenya K000386350
    Glover, P.E. [3686], Kenya K000386352
    Glover, P.E. [833], Kenya K000386354
    Glover, P.E. [2843], Kenya K000386355
    Glover, P.E. [1998], Kenya K000386345
    Glover, P.E. [1533], Kenya K000386346
    Bogdan, A. [AB3627], Kenya K000386340
    Bogdan, A. [AB2118], Kenya K000386341
    Bogdan, A. [AB2257], Kenya K000386342
    Mathew, B. [6535], Kenya K000386315
    Verdcourt, B. [2295], Kenya K000386348
    Stewart, D.R.M. [597], Kenya K000386317
    Stewart, D.R.M. [594], Kenya K000386318
    Powys, G. [484], Kenya K000386329
    Napper, D.M. [549], Kenya K000386331
    illegible [1878/24], Kenya K000386320
    Adamson, T. [28], Kenya K000386316
    Edwards, D.C. [3], Kenya K000386351
    McKay, A.D. [15], Kenya K000386327
    Kokwaro, J.O. [3535], Kenya K000386353
    Heady, H.F. [1313], Kenya K000386328
    Leuthold, W. [58], Kenya K000386358
    Gagah, C.N. [ALP148], Kenya K000386319
    Burzlaff, D. [60], Kenya K000386337

    First published in Miss. Somal. Ital. Merid., Relaz.: 245 (1916)

    Accepted by

    • Darbyshire, I., Kordofani, M., Farag, I., Candiga, R. & Pickering, H. (eds.) (2015). The Plants of Sudan and South Sudan: 1-400. Kew publishing, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
    • Clayton, W.D., Harman, K.T. & Williamson, H. (2006). World Grass Species - Synonymy database The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
    • Hedberg, I. & Edwards, S. (eds.) (1995). Flora of Ethiopia and Eritrea 7: 1-430. The National Herbarium, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia & The Department of Systematic Botany, Upps.
    • Thulin, M. (ed.) (1995). Flora of Somalia 4: i-ii, 1-298. The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
    • Davis, P.H. (ed.) (1985). Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands 9: 1-724. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh.
    • Clayton, W.D. & Renvoize, S.A. (1982). Gramineae Flora of Tropical East Africa 3: 451-898.

    Literature

    Kew Backbone Distributions
    • Hedberg, I. & Edwards, S. (eds.) (1995). Flora of Ethiopia and Eritrea 7: 1-430. The National Herbarium, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia & The Department of Systematic Botany, Upps.
    • Clayton, W.D. & Renvoize, S.A. (1982). Gramineae Flora of Tropical East Africa 3: 451-898.

    Sources

    GrassBase - The Online World Grass Flora
    http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

    Herbarium Catalogue Specimens
    'The Herbarium Catalogue, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet http://www.kew.org/herbcat [accessed on Day Month Year]'. Please enter the date on which you consulted the system.
    Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

    Kew Backbone Distributions
    The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2019. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
    © Copyright 2017 World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

    Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
    The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2019. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
    © Copyright 2017 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0