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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Caespitose perennial; culms up to 50 cm tall, erect or ascending, wiry; leaf laminas (1)2–6(9) cm × 1.5–2.7(3) mm, narrowly linear, rather stiff, glaucous, flat or more often involute.Racemes 3–8 cm long, slender, loose, flexuous.Spikelets 4.6–6.5 mm long (excluding the awns); inferior glume 3.4–5.1 mm long, (0.8)0.9–1.2 times the length of the lowermost lemma; superior glume ± as long as the spikelet; fertile lemmas 1–2(3), 3.2–5.3 mm long, pilose on the back, with an awn up to 5 mm long (sometimes more); sterile lemmas 3–5. |
| Type location: |
South Africa, Transvaal |
| Notes: | |
| Derivation of specific name: | digitata: divided into lobes or leaflets like the fingers on a hand |
| Habitat: | Dambos, grassland on sandy soil and in open woodland |
| Altitude range: (metres) | 1000 - 1740 m |
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| Worldwide distribution: | South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe |
| FZ divisions: | C |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature: |
Cope, T.A. (1999). Poaceae Flora Zambesiaca 10(2) Pages 39 - 41. (Includes a picture). Mapaura, A. & Timberlake, J. (eds) (2004). A checklist of Zimbabwean vascular plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 33 Sabonet, Pretoria and Harare Page 106. |