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Digitaria hystrichoides Vickery
Family Poaceae
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.


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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.
AVH map***

Text by S. W. L. Jacobs & C. A. Wall
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 4 (1993)


APNI* Provides a link to the Australian Plant Name Index (hosted by the Australian National Botanic Gardens) for comprehensive bibliographic data
***The AVH map option provides a detailed interactive Australia wide distribution map drawn from collections held by all major Australian herbaria participating in the Australian Virtual Herbarium project.
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