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Digitaria abyssinica

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Name

Identification
Isotype of Panicum abyssinicum Hochst. ex A.Rich. [family POACEAE ] Digitaria abyssinica (Hochst. ex A.Rich.) Stapf [family POACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Digitaria somalensis
  • Panicum abyssinicum
  • Digitaria ciliaris
  • Digitaria merkeri
  • Panicum muticum
  • Digitaria appropinquata
  • Panicum scalarum
  • Digitaria scalarum
  • Digitaria abyssinica
  • Panicum kafuroense

Flora

Entry for DIGITARIA abyssinica (Hochst. ex A. Rich.) Stapf [family ]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 4, (1995) Author: by T. A. Cope [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
DIGITARIA abyssinica (Hochst. ex A. Rich.) Stapf [family ], (1907).
Panicum scalarum Schweinf. [family POACEAE], (1894);
DIGITARIA abyssinica (Schweinf.) Stapf var. scalarum [family ], in Bull. Misc. Inform. 1907: 213 (1907). [type as above]
Panicum scalarum Chiov. var. elatior [family POACEAE], in Ann. R. Ist. Bot. Roma 6: 166, t. 9 (1896);. type: N2, “Habr Awal”, Robecchi-Bricchetti 562 (FT holo.).
DIGITARIA somalensis Chiov. [family ], (1917);. type: S2, “Merca”, Provenzales s.n. (FT holo.).
Information
Creeping perennial with wiry rhizomes, forming mats; stems up to 60 cm high, weak, decumbent below, the basal sheaths usually glabrous, rarely pubescent or villous; leaves broadly linear to narrowly lanceolate. Inflorescence of 2–25 racemes arranged along a short axis 1–9 cm long; racemes 2–11 cm long, the spikelets in pairs on a triquetrous rhachis with or without narrow wings. Spikelets ovate-elliptic to broadly elliptic, plump, 1.5–2.5 mm long; lower glume a ± ovate membranous scale 0.1–0.8 mm long; upper glume 2/3 as long to as long as the spikelet, 3- to 7-nerved, glabrous, the nerves usually prominent; lower lemma 7-nerved, glabrous; fruit ellipsoid, in various shades of grey, light brown or purple.
Range
N1, 2; S2, 3 tropical Africa to South Africa, Arabia, Madagascar and Sri Lanka.
Altitude range
up to 1750 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA McKinnon 280; Hansen & Heemstra 6248; Rose Innes 846; Terry 3396.
Notes
Domar, garguro, houla, sirdi (Som.).

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