{"id":1379860,"date":"2014-11-14T11:59:11","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T11:59:11","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-12-29T12:19:15","modified_gmt":"2024-12-29T06:49:15","slug":"digitaria-bicornis","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/efi\/digitaria-bicornis\/","title":{"rendered":"Digitaria bicornis"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Digitaria<\/i> bicornis<\/i> (Lam.) Roem. & Schult., Syst. Veg. 2: 470 1817<\/i>. (Syn: Digitaria<\/i> barbata<\/i> Willd.<\/span><\/a>; Digitaria<\/i> barbulata<\/i> Desv.<\/span><\/a>; Digitaria<\/i> bicornis<\/i> subsp. gamblei<\/i> Henrard<\/span><\/a>; Digitaria<\/i> biformis<\/i> Willd.<\/span><\/a>\u00a0…; Digitaria<\/i> commutata<\/i> Schult.<\/span><\/a>; Digitaria<\/i> corymbosa<\/i> subsp. marathensis<\/i> Henrard<\/span><\/a>\u00a0.; Digitaria<\/i> diversiflora<\/i> Swallen<\/span><\/a>; Digitaria<\/i> nuda<\/i> subsp. senegalensis<\/i> Henrard<\/span><\/a>; Digitaria<\/i> queenslandica<\/i> Henrard<\/span><\/a>; Digitaria<\/i> rottleri<\/i> Roem. & Schult.<\/span><\/a> [Invalid]; Digitaria<\/i> sanguinalis<\/i> f. commutata<\/i> (Schult.) Haines<\/span><\/a>; Digitaria<\/i> setigera<\/i> subsp. marathensis<\/i> (Henrard) Henrard ex Bor<\/span><\/a>\u00a0.; Panicum<\/i> adpressum<\/i> Willd.<\/span><\/a> [Illegitimate]; Panicum<\/i> adpressum<\/i> Forssk.<\/span><\/a>; Panicum<\/i> aegyptiacum<\/i> var. blepharanthum<\/i> (T.Durand & Schinz) Chiov.<\/span><\/a>; Panicum<\/i> appressum<\/i> Kunth<\/span><\/a> [Illegitimate]; Panicum<\/i> barbatum<\/i> (Willd.) Kunth<\/span><\/a> [Illegitimate]; Panicum<\/i> bicorne<\/i> (Lam.) Kunth<\/span><\/a>; Panicum<\/i> biforme<\/i> (Willd.) Kunth<\/span><\/a>; Panicum<\/i> ciliare<\/i> A.Rich.<\/span><\/a> [Illegitimate]; Panicum<\/i> commutatum<\/i> (Schult.f.) Nees<\/span><\/a> [Illegitimate]; Panicum<\/i> glaucescens<\/i> Nees<\/span><\/a> [Illegitimate]; Panicum<\/i> macrostachyum<\/i> Hochst. ex T.Durand & Schinz<\/span><\/a> [Invalid]; Panicum<\/i> neesii<\/i> Kunth<\/span><\/a>; Panicum<\/i> sanguinale<\/i> var. barcaldinense<\/i> Domin<\/span><\/a>\u00a0..; Paspalum<\/i> bicorne<\/i> Lam.<\/span><\/a>; Paspalum<\/i> sanguinale<\/i> var. commutatum<\/i> (Schult.) Hook.f.<\/span><\/a>; Syntherisma<\/i> barbata<\/i> (Willd.) Nash<\/span><\/a>);
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Annuals. Culms to 50 cm high; nodes glabrous. Leaves 4-10 x 0.3-0.6 cm, linear-lanceolate, base rounded, apex acute or acuminate; sheaths lax, to 5 cm long; ligules to 3 mm long, truncate, membranous. Racemes usually 2, rarely 3 or more, each 5-12 cm long. Rhachis winged, serrate. Spikelets binate, heteromorphous, 2.5-3.5 mm long, oblong-elliptic, sessile ones glabrous or sparsely pubescent, pedicelled ones pectinate, pubescent. Lower glume scaly, sometimes absent. Upper glume 1-2.5 mm long, lanceolate, chartaceous, silky pubescent. Lower floret empty. Upper floret bisexual. First lemma 2.5-3.5 x 1 mm, elliptic-lanceolate, chartaceous, 7-nerved. Second lemma 2.5-3 x 1 mm, elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, crustaceous. Palea 2.5-3 x 0.5-1 mm, elliptic-lanceolate, crustaceous, 2-keeled. Stamens 3; anthers c. 1 mm. Stigmas c. 1 mm long pink. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Flowering and fruiting: March-September<\/span><\/div>\n
Deciduous forests<\/span><\/div>\n
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(Attributions- Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi<\/div>\n
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Hooghly : sk-Oct-20 : grass : Digitaria radicosa (J.Presl) Miq. again?<\/a> : 4 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (5).
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digitaria ciliaris<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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It is\u00a0Digitaria ciliaris<\/i><\/p>\n

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Digitaria biformis<\/i>. The hairs of the pedicelled spikelets spread at maturity.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nGrass identification -3<\/a>: 3 high res. images.
\nHabitat: grow on wasteland\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
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Habit: Annual herb<\/span><\/div>\n
Loc- Kota Rajasthan
\n<\/span>Date- 31july 2022<\/span><\/div>\n
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Digitaria biformis<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nIdentify the grass sp 2<\/a>: 1 high res. image.
\nIdentify the grass sp collected from Andhra university campus on 03\/11\/24<\/span><\/p>\n
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There are two grasses in the centre – The major one is Digitaria bicornis<\/em><\/span> and the tall one towards the top is Echinochloa colona<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Need Grass ID: Bhopal<\/a>: 2 images- 1 high res.
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Arthraxon sp.\u00a0I recently saw this species of grass on the wall of an ancient temple.\u00a0Most probably A.lanceolatus<\/em> pls check\u00a0https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/2023\/10\/27\/arthraxon-lanceolatus\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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Digitaria bicornis<\/em><\/p>\n

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References:
\n<\/span>POWO<\/a> \u00a0The Plant List Ver.1.1<\/a> \u00a0WCSP<\/a> \u00a0Grassbase<\/a>\u00a0 GRIN<\/a> \u00a0Flora of China<\/a>\u00a0 Annotated checklist of Flowering plants of Nepal<\/a> India Biodiversity Portal<\/a> \u00a0IBIS Flora<\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 Digitaria bicornis (Lam.) Roem. & Schult., Syst. Veg. 2: 470 1817. (Syn: Digitaria barbata Willd.; Digitaria barbulata Desv.; Digitaria bicornis subsp. gamblei Henrard; Digitaria biformis Willd.\u00a0…; Digitaria commutata Schult.; Digitaria corymbosa subsp. marathensis Henrard\u00a0.; Digitaria diversiflora Swallen; Digitaria nuda subsp. senegalensis Henrard; Digitaria queenslandica Henrard; Digitaria rottleri Roem. &…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[4882],"ht-kb-tag":[],"class_list":["post-1379860","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-digitaria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1379860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1379860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1379860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1379860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=1379860"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=1379860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}