Digitaria velutina(Forssk.) Stapf. [family POACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Goetghebeur,P., Isotype of Panicum fenestratumHochst. ex A.Rich. [family POACEAE ]
Related name
Panicum fenestratum
Digitaria horizontalis
Digitaria digitata
Panicum zeyheri
Paspalum velutinum
Panicum abyssinicum
Digitaria zeyheri
Digitaria ciliaris
Panicum sanguinale
Phalaris velutina
Milium velutinum
Panicum psilostachyum
Digitaria velutina
Panicum horizontale
Digitaria ulugurensis
Digitaria leucites
Milium filiforme
Digitaria abyssinica
Digitaria divaricata
Digitaria nuda
Flora
Entry for DIGITARIA velutina (Forssk.) P. Beauv. [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 velutina(Forssk.) P. Beauv. [family ], (1812).
DIGITARIA horizontalis [family ], auct. non Willd.
Information
Annual up to 80 cm high, often decumbent and rambling; leaves broadly linear to lanceolate, thin. Inflorescence of (3–)7–20 racemes diverging from a common axis 1–7 cm long, this seldom exceeding the longest raceme; racemes delicate, 3–13 cm long, the spikelets in pairs and overlapping by less than 1/2 their length on a narrowly winged triquetrous rhachis. Spikelets narrowly ovate-elliptic, 1.5–2.1 mm long, bluntly acute; lower glume obscure or an ovate scale up to 0.2 mm long; upper glume 2/3–4/5 the length of the spikelet, 3-nerved; lower lemma 7-nerved, the nerves evenly spaced and smooth, obscurely appressed-pubescent, occasionally with a ciliate frill; fruit ellipsoid, mostly grey but varying from yellowish to purplish-brown.
Range
N1; C1; S1–3 East Africa and Arabia southwards to South Africa.
