Family: Poaceae
Digitaria violascens
Citation:
Link, Hort. bot. Berol. 1:229 (1827).
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: Annual, with stems geniculate or suberect, 15-50 cm high; leaves scaberulous on the upper surface, the blades lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, tapering to an acuminate apex, flat, the margins sometimes slightly undulate, 3-20 cm long; ligule truncate, 1-2 mm long.
Description:
Racemes mostly approximate at the summit of the culm, 2-13, slender, 5-10 cm long; spikelets fight to the base, in 3's at least below, 1.5-1.8 mm long; first glume minute or 0; second glume 3-nerved, puberulent between the nerves, slightly shorter than the first lemma; first (sterile) lemma 5-7-nerved, with the 3 innermost nerves closer together than the lateral ones, puberulent between the nerves; second (fertile) lemma about as long as the sterile lemma, black, shining.
Distribution:
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S.Aust.: SL. W.Aust.; N.T.; QId; N.S.W. Native to America and Asia.
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Conservation status:
naturalised
Flowering time: mostly Jan. — May.
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SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia
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Biology:
Not Applicable
Author:
Not yet available
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