Dignathia hirtellaStapf [family POACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
Dignathia hirtella
Flora
Entry for DIGNATHIA hirtella Stapf [family POACEAE]
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
DIGNATHIA hirtellaStapf [family POACEAE], (1911).
Information
Annual up to 30 cm high though usually much less. Inflorescence 2–7 cm long; racemelets comprising (1–)2 fertile spikelets and a rudiment. Spikelets suborbicular with rostrate tip, 4–7 mm long; glumes appressed-pubescent on the body, shortly ciliate on the margins, the lower crescent- or s-shaped, the upper with a gibbous body 1.5–2 mm long drawn out into a stiff awn-like beak.
