Digitaria ramularis (Trin.) Henrard APNI* Synonyms: Panicum tenuissimum Benth. APNI*
Description: Slender perennial to 1 m high, rather densely villous at the base.
Leaves with sheath often villous or hirsute with tubercle-based hairs; ligule 2–4 mm long; blade to 7 mm wide, with densely to thinly sprinkled short hairs.
Racemes 3–10, 3–15 cm long, on a common axis 2–10 cm long, sometimes compound with few short appressed branchlets, the spikelets loosely and irregularly arranged and rather remote, paired, the longer pedicel much longer than the spikelet. Spikelets 1.5–2 mm long. Lower glume c. 15% as long as the spikelet; upper 50–75% the length of the sterile lemma, usually glabrous, but occasionally hairy, 3–5-nerved. Sterile lemma usually slightly shorter than the spikelet, 5–7-nerved, usually glabrous but occasionally pubescent on the internerves and margins. Fertile lemma dark brown or brownish black at maturity.
Flowering: summer.
Distribution and occurrence: Widespread in diverse habitats.
NSW subdivisions: NC, CC, SC, NT, CT, NWS, CWS
Other Australian states: Qld
Text by S. W. L. Jacobs & C. A. Wall
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 4 (1993)
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