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Digitaria flexilis

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Name

Identification
Digitaria flexilis Henrard [family GRAMINEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
  • Digitaria longiflora
  • Digitaria flexilis

Flora

Entry for DIGITARIA longiflora (Retz.) Pers. [family ]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 451, (1982) Author: W. D. CLAYTON and S.A. RENVOIZE
Names
DIGITARIA longiflora (Retz.) Pers. [family ], Syn. Pl. 1: 85 (1805); F.T.A. 9: 469 (1919); Fl. Agrost. Congo Belge 2: 46 (1934); Ann. list grasses Ug.: 14 (1947); F.P.N.A. 3: 75 (1955); F.P.S. 3: 435 (1956); R.K.G.: 49 (1958); Ann. list Nyasaland grasses: 35 (1958); I.G.U.: 25 (1960); G.T.: 75 (1965); Clayton in F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 3: 453 (1972). Type: India, Malabar, König (K, iso.!)
Paspalum longiflorum Retz. [family POACEAE], Obs. Bot. 4: 15 (1786)
Panicum longiflorum (Retz.) Gmel. [family POACEAE], Syst. Nat., ed. 13, 2: 158 (1791)
Paspalum brevifolium Fluegge [family POACEAE], Gram. Monogr. 1: 150 (1810), nom. superfl. Based on P. longiflorum Retz.
Paspalum pubescens Presl [family POACEAE], Rel. Haenk. 1: 214 (1830), non Willd. (1809). Type: Peru, Haenke (PR, holo.!)
Paspalum preslii Kunth [family POACEAE], Enum. Pl. 1: 47 (1833). Based on P. pubescens Presl
Panicum parvulum Trin. [family POACEAE], in Mém. Acad. Sci. Pétersb., sér. 6, 3: 205 (1834), nom. superfl. Based on Paspalum longiflorum Retz.
Digitaria flexilis Henr. [family ], Monogr. Digitaria: 258 (1950). Type: Uganda, Entebbe, Hitchcock 24905 (L, holo., EA, K, iso.!)
Digitaria preslii (Kunth) Henr. [family ], Monogr. Digitaria: 589 (1950)
Digitaria corradii Chiov. [family ], in Webbia 8: 68 (1951). Types: Ethiopia, Mega, Corradi 998, 1039 & 1271 (all FI, syn.!)
Information
Annual or sometimes a short-lived perennial, varying from a prostrate creeper to a leafy upright plant; culms 10–60 cm. high, ascending from a stoloniferous base. Leaf-blades 1–9 cm. long, 1–5 mm. wide, the blades and sheaths usually glabrous but occasionally hirsute. Inflorescence of 2–4 (typically 2) digitate racemes; racemes 1–10 cm. long, the spikelets ternate on a ribbon-like winged rhachis with low rounded midrib. Spikelets narrowly ovate-elliptic, 1.2–1.8 mm. long; lower glume a minute hyaline rim; upper glume as long as the spikelet, 5-nerved, with short appressed verrucose hairs between the nerves (sometimes glabrous between 1st and 2nd lateral nerves); lower lemma as long as the spikelet, 7-nerved, pubescent with verrucose hairs or these appressed and barely visible (sometimes glabrous beside midrib and between 2nd and 3rd nerves); fruit ellipsoid, pallid, light brown or light grey.
Range
DISTR. U1–4; K2–5, 7; T1–8; Z; P throughout the Old World tropics; introduced to the New World
Altitude range
0–2300 m.
Distribution
KENYA Turkana District Kacheliba, 9 Oct. 1964, Leippert 5078!KENYA Kiambu District Limuru, 6 May 1959, McCallum Webster K.74!KENYA Kwale District near Taru, 8 Sept. 1953, Drummond & Hemsley 4198!TANZANIA Ngara District Bushubi, 13 Apr. 1960, Tanner 4864!TANZANIA Lushoto District Bumbuli, 11 May 1953, Drummond & Hemsley 2501!TANZANIA Mbeya District Jongomeru [Njongomeru], 17 Apr. 1970, Greenway & Kanuri 14376!TANZANIA Zanzibar I., Chumbuni, Dec. 1943, R.M. Davies 30!TANZANIA Pemba I., Weti, Vaughan 267!UGANDA Acholi District Oguen, 21 May 1969, Lye 3003!UGANDA Ankole District Mbarara, 3 Aug. 1929, Snowden 1406!UGANDA Mengo District Bukasa, 3 Feb. 1934, A.S. Thomas 1224!

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