Digitaria acuminatissimaStapf [family POACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
Digitaria acuminatissima
Digitaria sanguinalis
Digitaria adscendens
Flora
Entry for DIGITARIA acuminatissima 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 acuminatissimaStapf [family ], (1919).
Information
Robust annual up to 120 cm high, rooting from the lower nodes; leaves broadly linear. Inflorescence of 2–4 racemes on an axis (0–)1–10 cm long; racemes stiff, 7–25 cm long, the spikelets in pairs on a winged rhachis with triquetrous midrib. Spikelets narrowly lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, 2.5–4 mm long, acuminate; lower glume an ovate scale up to 0.4 mm long; upper glume 1/3–1/2 the length of the spikelet, 3-nerved; lower lemma 7-nerved, the nerves evenly spaced and scaberulous, obscurely and appressedly pubescent; fruit lanceolate, pallid or grey, 0.2–0.5 mm shorter than the lower lemma.
Range
S3 scattered throughout tropical Africa, but nowhere common.
Altitude range
c. 50 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Hemming & Deshmukh 125.
Notes
Malaaso (Som.). Similar to the more temperate D. sanguinalis (L.) Scop. but with narrower acuminate spikelets and upper lemma exceeded by the lower.
