Digitaria ciliaris (Retz.) Koeler - southern crabgrass
Digitaria ciliaris (Retz.) Koeler - southern crabgrass
Digitaria ciliaris (Retz.) Koeler - southern crabgrass
MG026 : Digitaria ciliaris (Retz.) Koeler
| Plant Category | : | Grasses |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 587 |
| Synonym | : | Asprella digitata Lam.;
Digitaria abortiva Reeder;
Digitaria adscendens (Kunth) Henrard;
Digitaria brevifolia Link;
Digitaria chinensis Hornem.;
Digitaria chrysoblephara Fig. & De Not.;
Digitaria fimbriata Link;
Digitaria inaequale (Link) Spreng.;
Digitaria inaequalis (Link) Spreng.;
Digitaria marginata Link;
Digitaria pes-avis Buse;
Digitaria sericea (Honda) Ohwi;
Digitaria tarapacana Phil.;
Leersia digitata (Lam.) Poir.;
Milium ciliare (Retz.) Moench;
Milium ciliatum Moench nom. illeg.;
Panicum adscendens Kunth;
Panicum brachyphyllum Steud.;
Panicum brevifolium (Link) Kunth nom. illeg.;
Panicum ciliare Retz.;
Panicum fimbriatum (Link) Kunth;
Panicum inaequale (Link) E.Fourn. nom. illeg.;
Panicum linkianum Kunth;
Panicum marginellum Schrad. nom. illeg.;
Panicum ornithopus Trin.;
Panicum pes-avis (Buse) Koord.;
Panicum villiferum Nees;
Paspalum ciliare (Retz.) DC.;
Paspalum inaequale Link;
Sanguinaria ciliaris (Retz.) Bubani;
Spartina pubera Hassk. nom. inval.;
Syntherisma ciliare (Retz.) Schrad.;
Syntherisma ciliaris (Retz.) Schrad.;
Syntherisma fimbriata (Link) Nash;
Syntherisma marginata (Link) Nash;
Syntherisma sericea Honda; |
| Plant Common Name | : | Wild Crabgrass, bamboo grass, crabgrass, Henry's crabgrass, large crabgrass, smooth crabgrass, southern crabgrass, summer grass, tropical crab grass, tropical finger grass |
| Plant Family | : | Poaceae / Gramineae |
| Description | : | Annual; culms 20-100 cm high, decumbent at the base and geniculately ascending. Leaf-blades broadly linear, 3-25 cm long, 3-10 mm wide. Inflorescence digitate or subdigitate (axis up to 5 cm long in robust specimens), composed of 2-12 racemes; racemes stiff, 6-22 cm long, sometimes adorned with sparse long white hairs, the spikelets binate and overlapping by about two-thirds their length on a winged rhachis with triquetrous midrib; pedicels triquetrous, scabrid, obtuse or slightly expanded at the tip. Spikelets narrowly elliptic, (2-)2.5-3.3 (-3.7) mm long, sharply acute; lower glume distinct, 0.2-0.4 mm long and triangular; upper glume at least half as long as the spikelet, typically two-thirds to three-quarters as long, 3-nerved; lower lemma as long as the spikelet, 7-nerved, the nerves smooth and evenly spaced or with a wide interspace flanking the midrib (sometimes those of the subsessile spikelet even and of the pedicelled spikelet spaced), appressed puberulous, silky pubescent or rarely shortly villous, often encompassed by a ciliate frill, occasionally glabrous, one or both spikelets often beset with stiff glassy bristles; fruit ellipsoid, grey to light brown.
Fl. & Fr. Per.: July-October. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (0): |
| Plant's Current Status | : | |
| Plant's Cross Database Reference | : | 259142 |
| Reference | : | Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve
- http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=200025248 |
| Reference | : | ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : |
| Kingdom | : Plantae - Plants |
|---|---|
| Phylum | : Tracheophyta |
| Subkingdom | : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants |
| Superdivision | : Spermatophyta - Seed plants |
| Division | : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants |
| Class | : Liliopsida - Monocotyledons |
| Subclass | : Commelinidae |
| Order | : Cyperales |
| Family | : Poaceae / Gramineae - Grass family |
| Genus | : Digitaria Haller - crabgrass |
| Species | : Digitaria ciliaris (Retz.) Koeler - southern crabgrass |