View source for Digitaria bakeri

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|accepted_name=Digitaria bakeri
|accepted_authority=(Nash) Fernald
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae;Poaceae tribe Paniceae;Digitaria;Digitaria bakeri
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Poaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Poaceae tribe Paniceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Digitaria]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Digitaria bakeri]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 25
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|treatment_page=page 364
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial; cespitose. <b>Culms</b> 40-90 cm, erect, unbranched, glabrous; nodes 1-2. <b>Sheaths</b> densely hairy, hairs papillose-based; ligules 0.8-2.2 mm; blades 10-24 cm long, 2-4.5 mm wide, with papillose-based hairs. <b>Panicles</b> with 2-3 spikelike primary branches on 4-7 mm rachises; secondary branches rarely present; primary branches (5)10-22 cm, axes 0.5-0.6 mm wide, not wing-margined, middle portions of the branches bearing spikelets in groups of 3; pedicels appressed to the axes. <b>Spikelets</b> 2.3-2.4 mm, lanceolate to oblanceolate-elliptic; lower glumes absent; upper glumes 1.4-1.5 mm, more than 1/2 as long as the spikelets, 3-veined, truncate to acute, mostly glabrous, apices sparsely hairy; lower lemmas about as long as the spikelets, 7-veined, mostly glabrous, apices sparsely hairy; upper lemmas 2.3-2.4 mm, dark brown to black, apiculate; anthers 1-1.1 mm. <b>2n</b> = unknown.</span><!--

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|discussion=<p><i>Digitaria bakeri</i> grows in pastures, particularly horse pastures, from Florida through Mexico to Panama. It is probably more widespread in Florida than the map suggests but, because of its inclusion in <i>D. gracillima</i>, little information is available at present.</p>
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name=Digitaria bakeri
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|authority=(Nash) Fernald
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|family=Poaceae
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Paniceae
|genus=Digitaria
|species=Digitaria bakeri
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