Digitaria Haller f.

Glumes 2 with 1 sterile lemma (Fig. 50 a) Digitaria

Rhachis devoid of spikelets for at least 2 cm at the base

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Racemes numerous, up to 35 cm long. Leaves glabrous or loosely pubescent. Spikelets 3 mm long, ± woolly with silky hairs, distant on the branches of the inflorescence. Erect, tufted perennial up to 80 cm high. Coast and Cumberland Plain. Forests. Fl. summer. Umbrella Grass Digitaria divaricatissima

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Racemes up to 11, up to 20 cm long. Leaves glabrous except towards the summit. Spikelets c. 3 mm long, covered with silky brownish or purplish hairs. Erect perennial up to 80 cm high, with short rhizomes. Hunter River Valley. Fl. summer. Cotton Panic Grass Digitaria brownii