Isotype of Digera angustifoliaSuess. [family AMARANTHACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Digera muricata(L.) Mart. [family AMARANTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
Digera arvensis
Pseudodigera pollaccii
Digera muricata
Digera alternifolia
Achyranthes muricata
Digera angustifolia
Achyranthes alternifolia
Achyranthes aspera
Flora
Entry for DIGERA muricata (L.) Mart. [family AMARANTHACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 1, (1993) Author: by C. C. Townsend [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Arab-lohad, fiideey-malabeey, geed gindhir, ginei-malovi. Plant (5–)12–50(–70) cm, simple or with ascending branches from near the base, stem and branches glabrous or sparingly pilose. Leaf-blade narrowly linear to broadly ovate, (1.2–)2–6(–9) x (0.2–)0.6–3(–5) cm, glabrous or spreading-hairy along the lower surface of the primary venation, acute or acuminate, petiolate. Flowers white tinged with pink to carmine, more rarely greenish-white, in long-pedunculate slender or stouter racemes. Outer tepals of fertile flower 3–4.5 mm, ovate or oblong, 3–12-nerved; (2–)3 inner tepals slightly shorter, blunt or erose, 1–3-nerved, hyaline with a darker central vitta. Style 1.5–4 mm, the stigmas finally recurved. Lateral flowers much reduced (more so upwards and sometimes only single fertile flowers present in the upper part of the spike), modified into antler-shaped scales, the lateral lobes narrow to broad and wing-like in fruit. Fruit subglobose, ± verrucose, crowned by a thick circular rim or corona of short firm processes.
