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| Synonyms: |
Digitaria eglumis Peter Digitaria eglumis var. reducta P. Goetghebeur Digitaria intecta Stapf Digitaria minutiflora Stapf Panicum minutiflorum Hochst. ex A. Rich. |
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A loosely caespitose or solitary growing, slender to rather robust annual. Culms 20–80 cm., erect or ascending, glabrous, nodes dark, hairy. Leaf sheaths glabrous to loosely hairy. Ligule 0.5–1.5 mm. long, truncate, ciliate. Leaf laminae 5–25 × 0.2–0.5 cm., linear, flat, scaberulous on the superior surface, glabrous on the inferior surface, scabrous along the margin. Inflorescence composed of (3)5–17 racemes, erect to very slightly arching, paired or solitary along a well developed common axis. Rhachis triquetrous, scarcely winged, up to 0.3 mm. wide, smooth or scabrous, margins scabrous. Pedicels 3–5-nate, triangular to compressed, scabrous, broadened at the apex, bearing a coronula of (1) 2–6 long bristle hairs, these often overtopping the spikelet. Spikelets 0.6–1.3 mm. long, ovate. Inferior glume absent. Superior glume very short, truncate, nerveless, glabrous, hyaline. Inferior lemma as long as the spikelet or somewhat shorter, rarely only 1/3 of the spikelet, ovate, 3-nerved, glabrous, hyaline. Superior lemma as long as the spikelet, ovate, acute, slightly to prominently papillose, conspicuously shining, dark brown. |
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| Habitat: | On shallow soil over rocks in miombo woodland, in dambos, weed along roadsides and in plantations. |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Scattered from Guinee to Ethiopia and south to Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe |
| Zimbabwe distribution: | N |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature: |
Clayton, W.D. (1989). Poaceae Flora Zambesiaca 10(3) Pages 141 - 142. (Includes a picture). Mapaura, A. & Timberlake, J. (eds) (2004). A checklist of Zimbabwean vascular plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 33 Sabonet, Pretoria and Harare Page 102. |
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