Common name: Curly Umbrella Grass
Digitaria hystrichoides Vickery APNI* 
Description: Greyish perennial to 0.8 m high, swollen and very hirsute at the base.
Leaves with sheath usually densely hirsute; ligule 1–1.25 mm long; blade 3–6 mm wide, both surfaces hirsute with tubercle-based hairs.
Racemes spreading at maturity, the axils thickened and hairy; lower racemes 15–30 cm long, sometimes branched, bare at the base for 5–12 cm. Spikelet pairs remote, the uppermost often borne singly. Shorter pedicel c. 0.5–1 mm long, longer to 4 mm long. Spikelets 3–3.5 mm long, ± concealed by hairs. Lower glume c. 0.5 mm long, 1-nerved or nerveless; upper glume a little shorter than the spikelet, 3-nerved, with 1–1.5 mm long hairs that spread at maturity. Lower lemma sterile, 5-nerved, as long as the spikelet, with 1–1.5 mm long hairs near the margins. Fertile lemma c. 2–2.5 mm long, shortly apiculate, shining.
Flowering: in response to rain.
Distribution and occurrence: Grows in grassland of drier areas.
NSW subdivisions: NC, NWS, CWS, NWP, SWP, NFWP
Other Australian states: Qld W.A.
Text by S. W. L. Jacobs & C. A. Wall
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 4 (1993)
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