Digitaria longiflora

Digitaria longiflora (Retz.) Pers., Syn. Pl. 1: 85 1805. (Syn: Agrostis lenta Aiton; Agrostis triracemosa Roxb. ex Hook.f. [Invalid]; Anastrophus nematanthus Schltdl. ex B.D.Jacks. [Spelling variant]; Digitaria corradii Chiov.; Digitaria curvipes Mez; Digitaria eriolepis Henrard; Digitaria filiculmis (Nees ex Miq.) Ohwi; Digitaria flexilis Henrard; Digitaria friesii Pilg.; Digitaria hatusimae Ohwi; Digitaria longiflora var. elatior Hack. ex Henrard; Digitaria malesiae Ohwi; Digitaria oblongo-ovata Ohwi; Digitaria preslii (Kunth) Henrard; Digitaria preslii var. glabrata Henrard; Digitaria propinqua (R.Br.) P.Beauv.; Digitaria pseudo-durva var. minus (Nees) Miq.; Digitaria roxburghii Spreng. [Illegitimate]; Digitaria speciosa Henrard; Digitaria tenuiflora (R.Br.) P.Beauv.; Milium filiforme Roxb. [Illegitimate]; Milium radiatum Rottler ex Hook.f. [Invalid]; Milium triracemosum Roxb. ex Hook.f. [Invalid]; Panicum longiflorum (Retz.) J.F.Gmel.; Panicum parvulum Trin. [Illegitimate]; Panicum propinquum R.Br.; Panicum pseudo-durva var. gracillima Nees ..; Panicum tenuiflorum R.Br.; Paspalum argenteum Vanderyst [Invalid]; Paspalum bifarium Edgew.; Paspalum brevifolium Flüggé [Illegitimate] .; Paspalum filiculme Nees ex Miq.; Paspalum longiflorum Retz.; Paspalum nematodes Schult.; Paspalum preslii Kunth; Paspalum pubescens J.Presl [Illegitimate]; Syntherisma longiflora (Retz.) Skeels; Syntherisma pubescens Scribn.; Vilfa lenta (Aiton) P.Beauv.);
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Tropical & Subtropical Old World: Andaman Is., Angola, Assam, Bangladesh, Benin, Borneo, Botswana, Burkina, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Central African Repu, Chad, China South-Central, China Southeast, Congo, East Himalaya, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Hainan, India, Ivory Coast, Jawa, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Laccadive Is., Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaya, Mali, Maluku, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, New Guinea, New South Wales, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Northern Territory, Pakistan, Philippines, Queensland, Rwanda, Réunion, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Transcaucasus, Uganda, Vietnam, West Himalaya, Western Australia, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe; Introduced into: Bermuda, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Caroline Is., Chagos Archipelago, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Florida, Guyana, Hawaii, Leeward Is., Maryland, Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, Samoa, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Wallis-Futuna Is., Windward Is., Wisconsin as per POWO;

Annuals. Culms 10-40 cm long, slender, creeping or geniculate, rooting at the nodes; nodes glabrous. Leaves 2-7 x 0.3-0.7 cm, elliptic-lanceolate, rounded or shallowly cordate at base, apex acute; sheaths keeled; ligules ovate, membranous. Racemes 2 or 3, digitate, 2-7 cm long. Rhachis flat, c. 0.5 mm wide, winged. Spikelets solitary, 1-2 mm long, ovate-elliptic, shortly hairy. Lower glume absent. Upper glume 1-2 x 1 mm, ovate-elliptic, chartaceous, 5-9-nerved. Lower floret empty. Upper floret bisexual. First lemma similar to the upper glume. Second lemma 1-1.5 x 1 mm, ovate-elliptic, crustaceous, Palea 1-1.5 x 0.5 mm, elliptic, 2-keeled, 2-nerved. Stamens 3; anthers c. 0.5 mm. Stigmas c. 1 mm long.

Flowering and fruiting: July-November

Grasslands and open areas

Paleotropics

(Attributions- Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi from India Biodiversity Portal)