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|accepted_name=Digitaria longiflora
|accepted_authority=(Retz.) Pers.
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae;Poaceae tribe Paniceae;Digitaria;Digitaria longiflora
|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 longiflora]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 25
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 370
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>of indefinite duration; stoloniferous, stolons long and branching. <b>Culms</b> 10-60 cm, occasionally branching from the lower nodes. <b>Leaves</b> 3-4, clustered near the base; sheaths usually glabrous; ligules 0.5-1 mm; blades 1.5-4 cm long, 3-5 mm wide, mostly glabrous, bases subcordate and ciliate, with 0.6-1 mm papillose-based hairs. <b>Panicles</b> with 2(-4) spikelike primary branches, digitate; primary branches 2-5 cm, strongly divergent; branch axes about 1 mm wide, wing-margined, wings wider than the central midribs, bearing spikelets in unequally pedicellate groups of 3; secondary branches rarely present; shortest pedicels about 0.3 mm; middle pedicels about 1 mm; longest pedicels 1.5-2 mm, adnate to the branch axes basally; axillary panicles not present. <b>Spikelets</b> 1.2-1.5 mm, elliptic or slightly obovate, acute. <b>Lower</b> glumes absent; upper glumes equaling or almost equaling the spikelets, 5-veined, minutely pubescent between the veins and on the margins; lower lemmas subequal to the upper glumes, 7-veined, usually pubescent on the margins and lateral veins, occasionally glabrous, hairs, if present, 0.2-0.4 mm; upper lemmas about 1.2 mm, pale brown or pale gray, becoming light brown at maturity, acute; anthers 0.8-0.8 mm. <b>2n</b> = 18.</span><!--

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|distribution=Puerto Rico;Md.;Fla.;Wis.
|discussion=<p><i>Digitaria longiflora</i> is native to Africa and Asia. It is now established in disturbed areas of Florida, growing on railroad grades and in pastures and lawns.</p>
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name=Digitaria longiflora
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|authority=(Retz.) Pers.
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|family=Poaceae
|distribution=Puerto Rico;Md.;Fla.;Wis.
|reference=None
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Paniceae
|genus=Digitaria
|species=Digitaria longiflora
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