Digitaria complanata Goetgh.

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Digitaria complanata

Picture: Petra Ballings
Along road to Chozi View Point, Nyika National Park

Digitaria complanata

Picture: Petra Ballings
Along road to Chozi View Point, Nyika National Park

Digitaria complanata

Picture: Bart Wursten
Along road to Chozi View Point, Nyika National Park

Digitaria complanata

Picture: Bart Wursten
Along road to Chozi View Point, Nyika National Park

Digitaria complanata

Picture: Petra Ballings
Along road to Chozi View Point, Nyika National Park

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Frequency: Rare
Status: Native
Description:
Small and slender annual grass. Culms 10–20 cm high, erect; nodes dark and hairless. Ligule rimlike, c. 1 mm. long, shortly ciliate. Leaves linear, 2–5 cm long, flat, hairless on both surfaces; margins smooth. Inflorescence composed of 1–2 racemes, 2–4 cm long, both on short peduncles. Rhachis asymmetrically winged, undulating. Spikelets oblong-lanceolate, 1.9–2.1 mm long. Inferior glume absent. Superior glume c. 1/2–2/3 of the spikelet, oblong-triangular, stiff, appressed white hairy, overtopping the superior glume. Inferior lemma as long as the spikelet, oblong-lanceolate with recurved margins, 5-nerved, appressed hairy. Superior lemma somewhat shorter than the spikelet, oblong-lanceolate, sharply keeled, pale yellow or sometimes purplish tinged.
Type location:
Zambia
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Habitat: In wet grassland and dambos.
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Worldwide distribution: DRC, northern Zambia and Malawi (Nyika).
Zambian distribution (Flora Zambesiaca):
Zambian distribution (Provinces): N
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Content last updated: Wednesday 3 July 2019
Literature:

Clayton, W.D. (1989). Poaceae Flora Zambesiaca 10(3) Pages 156 - 157. (Includes a picture).

Phiri, P.S.M. (2005). A Checklist of Zambian Vascular Plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 32 Page 128.

Other sources of information about Digitaria complanata:

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Flora of Caprivi: cultivated Digitaria complanata
Flora of Malawi: Digitaria complanata

External websites:

African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Digitaria complanata
BHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Digitaria complanata
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Digitaria complanata
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Digitaria complanata
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
iNaturalist: Digitaria complanata
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Digitaria complanata
JSTOR Plant Science: Digitaria complanata
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Digitaria complanata
Plants of the World Online: Digitaria complanata
Tropicos: Digitaria complanata
Wikipedia: Digitaria complanata


Copyright: Mike Bingham, Annette Willemen, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Mark Hyde, 2011-24

Bingham, M.G., Willemen, A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. and Hyde, M.A. (2024). Flora of Zambia: Species information: Digitaria complanata.
https://www.zambiaflora.com/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=187540, retrieved 19 March 2024

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