Finger Sprangletop (Leptochloa digitata)
Description
Erect, stout perennial to 2 m high, often rhizomatous.Leaves with ligule a membranous ciliate rim < 0.5 mm long, including cilia; blade flat or rolled, to 0.5 mm wide, ribbed, glabrous.Inflorescence subdigitate, axils pilose with hairs to 0.5 mm long; racemes 1-sided, 1-13 mm long, to 3 mm wide. Spikelets overlapping, to 4 mm long, with 3-8 florets; pedicels to 0.5 mm long, scabrous. Glumes unequal, acute, keeled, keel scabrous; lower c. 1 mm long, upper c. 2 mm long, apex sometimes mucronate. Lemmas 1-2 mm long, upper lemmas successively smaller, obtuse, keeled; callus with 2 clusters of appressed hairs to 0.25 mm long. Paleas slightly shorter or same length as lemma, 2-keeled; keels ciliate with hairs < 0.25 mm long.
Taxonomic tree
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Domain: Eukarya
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Kingdom: Plantae
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Phylum: Magnoliophyta
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Class: Liliopsida
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Order: Poales
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Family: Poaceae
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Genus: Leptochloa
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