Digitaria pauciflora

Hitchc.
Endemic
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 25. Treatment on page 374.

Plants perennial; not rhizomatous. Culms 50-100 cm, erect to somewhat decumbent, not rooting at the lower nodes, usually branching at the aerial nodes. Sheaths grayish-villous; ligules 1.5-2 mm; blades to 12 cm long, 2-2.2 mm wide, flat or folded, densely grayish-villous on both surfaces. Panicles with 2-3 spikelike primary branches, secondary branches not present; primary branches 5-11 cm, axes not winged, without spikelets or with widely spaced abortive spikelets on the proximal 1-1.5 cm, bearing spikelets in unequally pedicellate pairs at midlength; shorter pedicels about 2 mm; longer pedicels about 3 mm, not adnate to the branch axes. Spikelets 2.7-3.2 mm, appressed, glabrous. Lower glumes minute, rounded, erose; upper glumes slightly shorter than the spikelets, 3-veined, glabrous; lower lemmas 7-veined, glabrous; upper lemmas gray or yellow when immature, becoming purple at maturity. 2n = unknown.

Discussion

Digitaria pauciflora is known only from the type collection, which was collected in pinelands of Dade County, Florida.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.

"decumbent" is not a number.

... more about "Digitaria pauciflora"
obtuse +  and acuminate +
anatomy +  and kranz +
J.K. Wipff +
Hitchc. +
1 (?) +  and 3 (?) +
keeled +  and rounded +
pseudopetiolate +  and branching +
divergent +  and parallel +
intravaginal +, extravaginal +, branching +  and basal +
swelling +
membranous +
disarticulating +  and pseudopetiolate +
non-radiate +  and radiate +
0 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> (12 cm120 mm <br />0.12 m <br />) +
grayish-villous +
folded +  and flat +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.22 cm2.2 mm <br />0.0022 m <br />) +
triquetrous +
spikelike +
0 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> (1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br />) +
not developed +
planoconvex +
sometimes longer +
branching +  and not rooting +
erect to somewhat +
50 cm500 mm <br />0.5 m <br /> (100 cm1,000 mm <br />1 m <br />) +
1/5 +  and 1/2 +
capillary +
germination +
pistillate +  and staminate +
sometimes longer +
compressed +  and terete +
shorter or longer +
subtending +
unequal +
membranous +
uncinate +
bracteate +  and ebracteate +
solid +  and hollow +
cauline +  and basal +
coriaceous +
0.15 cm1.5 mm <br />0.0015 m <br /> (0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br />) +
membranous +
inconspicuous +
3 cm30 mm <br />0.03 m <br /> (?) +
complex +  and simple +
concealed +  and prominent +
2 +  and 1 +
pedicellate +
subterranean +
dry +  and fleshy +
5 cm50 mm <br />0.05 m <br /> (11 cm110 mm <br />0.11 m <br />) +
grayish-villous +
2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br /> (?) +
in triplets +  and paired +
1 +  and 60 +
unisexual +  and bisexual +
compressed +, lanceoloid +  and ellipsoid +
0.27 cm2.7 mm <br />0.0027 m <br /> (0.32 cm3.2 mm <br />0.0032 m <br />) +
1 +  and 3 +
fused +  and free +
2 +  and 3 +
dome--shaped +  and triangular +
Gramineae +
Digitaria pauciflora +
Digitaria +
species +
membranous +
yellow +  and gray +
cartilaginous +, coriaceous +  and indurate +
aquatic +  and terrestrial +
dioecious +, monoecious +  and synoecious +