Digitaria
Taxonomic status
Accepted
Occurrence status
Present
Establishment means
Native
Degree of establishment
Native
Tufted or rhizomatous annuals or perennials. Leaf-blades usually flat; ligules membranous. Inflorescence a panicle, often digitate or subdigitate. Spikelets shortly pedicellate; lower glume reduced or absent; lower floret neuter; palea of upper floret embraced by rather broad, flat margins of lemma.
About 220 species, cosmopolitan; 37 in Australia (10 naturalised); 7 in Victoria (2 naturalised).
Source:
Walsh, N.G. (1994). Poaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 2, Ferns and Allied Plants, Conifers and Monocotyledons, pp. 356–627. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
Updated by: Val
Stajsic,
6 Apr. 2022
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