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Digitaria horizontalis

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Name

Identification
Digitaria horizontalis Willd. [family POACEAE ] (stored under name); Panicum sanguinale L. [family POACEAE ]
Related name
  • Panicum porranthum
  • Panicum fenestratum
  • Digitaria horizontalis
  • Digitaria digitata
  • Digitaria usambarica
  • Digitaria pearsonii
  • Panicum zeyheri
  • Digitaria violascens
  • Panicum abyssinicum
  • Digitaria zeyheri
  • Panicum sanguinale
  • Digitaria lancifolia
  • Phalaris velutina
  • Paspalum oxyanthum
  • Paspalum fuscum
  • Digitaria reflexa
  • Panicum psilostachyum
  • Digitaria velutina
  • Panicum horizontale
  • Digitaria sanguinalis
  • Digitaria divaricata
  • Digitaria nuda
  • Digitaria gentilis

Flora

Entry for DIGITARIA horizontalis Willd. [family ]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 7, page 310, (1900) Author: (By O. STAPF.)
Names
DIGITARIA horizontalis Willd. [family ], Enum. Pl. Hort. Berol. 1809, 92
DIGITARIA setosa Hamilt. [family ], Prod. Veget. Ind. Occ. 6.
DIGITARIA umbrosa Link [family ], Hort. Bot. Berol. i. 227.
DIGITARIA undulata Schrank ex Nees [family ], Fl. Afr. Austr. 24.
Panicum horizontale G. F. W. Meyer [family POACEAE], Prim. Fl. Esseq. 54; Kunth, Enum. i. 81; Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 24; Hook. Niger Fl. 560; Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 39.
Panicum Hamiltonii Kunth [family POACEAE], Enum. i. 84.
Panicum Zeyheri Nees [family POACEAE], Fl. Afr. Austr. 25; Steud. l.c. 40; Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 767.
Panicum fenestratum Hochst. ex A. Rich. [family POACEAE], Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 361; Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 40; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 117; Durand & Schinz, l.c. 749.
Panicum porranthum Steud. [family POACEAE], l.c. 42.
Panicum sanguinale Doell var. distans [family POACEAE], in Mart. Flor. Bras. ii. ii. 134.
Panicum sanguinale Hack. var. cognatum [family POACEAE], in Bull. Herb. Boiss. ii. App. ii. 18; Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 763.
Panicum sanguinale Hack. var. horizontale [family POACEAE], in Bull. Herb. Boiss. ii. App. ii. 18; Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 763.
Panicum sanguinale Schweinf. var. fenestratum [family POACEAE], in Bull. Herb. Boiss. ii. App. ii. 18.
Panicum sanguinale Durand & Schinz var. filiforme [family POACEAE], l.c.
Information
annual; culms ascending from a geniculate or more or less prostrate, sometimes rooting, branched base, slender, 1 to several ft. long, glabrous, few to many-noded, upper internode by far the longest; leaves glabrous or hairy; sheaths thin, the lower withering; ligules very short; blades linear-lanceolate to linear, acute or gradually tapering from below the middle, 2–5 in. by 2–4 lin. (in the South African specimens), flat, flaccid, margins scabrid; racemes 4- to many, subdigitate or on an angular common axis of variable length (1 to several in. long), singly or the lower subverticillate, erect or spreading, slender, strict, 1 1/2–6 in. long, usually villous or bearded at the base, often with a few scattered stiff long very fine hairs from the common axis; rhachis very narrow, usually wavy, triquetrous, lateral angles more or less winged, scabrid, internodes about 1 1/2 lin. long (in the South African specimens) or longer; pedicels 2-nate, one very short, the other up to 3/4 lin. long, triquetrous, scabrid; spikelets linear-oblong, acute, 3/4–1 lin. long, greenish; lower glume extremely minute or suppressed, upper lanceolate-oblong, equalling 1/2– 4/5 of the upper valve, 3-nerved with lines of extremely fine adpressed silky hairs between the nerves and along the margins or with the marginal hairs spreading; valves equal or subequal, lower prominently and closely 7-nerved, with lines of extremely fine adpressed silky hairs between the outer nerves and along the margins or with the marginal hairs spreading; upper valve subchartaceous, acute, pale-greenish. null
Range
Throughout tropical Africa, in the Mascarene Islands and tropical America.
Distribution
EASTERN REGION Transkei; banks of the Bashee River, below 1000 ft., Drège! Tembuland; Bazeia, 2000 ft., Baur, 177! Natal; near Durban, Drège! Williamson, 27! Umpumulo, Buchanan, 202! 204!

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