Digitaria porrecta (Digitaria porrecta)
Description
Digitaria porrecta is a perennial,loosely tufted,erect or ascending grass up to 60 cm tall;the culms are branched and the nodes are pubescent.The leaf sheaths are glabrous,or with a few hairs especially towards the base;the ligules are membranous,2 to 3 mm long;the leaf blades are linear,the apex attenuate,5 to 15 cm x 0.3 to 0.4 cm,pubescent or glabrous.Inflorescence panicles of several racemes,racemes up to 25 cm long,lower most racemes whorled,branched,branches divaricate,3 to 10 cm long,upper racemes solitary;spikelets in pairs,5 to 7 mm long;lower glume 1 to 1.5 mm long,upper glume somewhat shorter than spikelet,pubescent between the outer nerves,hairs at first appressed,at length spreading and woolly;lower florets with lemma as long as spikelet,pubescent between the outer nerves,hairs at first appressed,at length spreading and woolly;upper florets shorter than spikelet (Stanley,1989).
Taxonomic tree
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Domain: Eukarya
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Kingdom: Plantae
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Class: Liliopsida
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Order: Poales
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Family: Poaceae
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Genus: Digitaria
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