- Family: Poaceae Barnhart
- Genus: Digitaria Haller
Digitaria macroblephara (Hack. ex Schinz) Paoli
- Genus: Digitaria Haller
This species is accepted, and its native range is NE. & E. Tropical Africa.
Descriptions
According to GrassBase - The Online World Grass Flora
[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
Synonyms
Other Data
Digitaria macroblephara (Hack. ex Schinz) Paoli appears in other Kew resources:
Herbarium Catalogue (45 records)
Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status |
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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 |
Bibliography
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
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Herbarium Catalogue Specimens
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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/
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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