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|accepted_name=Digitaria violascens
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae;Poaceae tribe Paniceae;Digitaria;Digitaria violascens
|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 violascens]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 25
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|treatment_page=page 372
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>annual or of indefinite duration. <b>Culms</b> 15-60 cm, erect, usually not branching from the upper nodes; nodes 3-4. <b>Sheaths</b> glabrous or sparsely pubescent; ligules 0.6-2.5 mm; blades 1.5-9 cm long, 3-5 mm wide, glabrous, with papillose-based hairs basally. <b>Panicles</b> with 2-7 spikelike primary branches in 1-2 verticils; primary branches 3-12 cm, erect to ascend¬ing, axes 0.6-1 mm wide, wing-margined, wings at least 1/2 as wide as the midribs, lower and middle portions of the branches bearing spikelets in groups of 3(4, 5); secondary branches rarely present; axillary inflorescences absent. <b>Spikelets</b> 1.2-1.7 mm, homomorphic, narrowly elliptic. <b>Lower</b> glumes absent or a veinless, membranous rim; upper glumes 1.2-1.4 mm, 1/2 as long as to almost equaling the upper lemmas, 3-veined, appressed-pubescent, hairs minutely verrucose; lower lemmas 1.2-1.7 mm, 5-7-veined, veins equally spaced, region between the 2 inner lateral veins and the margins appressed-pubescent, hairs 0.3-0.5 mm, smooth or minutely verrucose (use 50x magnification), verrucose hairs most abundant near the lemma bases; upper lemmas light brown when immature, dark brown at maturity; anthers 0.4-0.6 mm. <b>2n</b> = 36.</span><!--

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|distribution=Puerto Rico;Mass.;Miss.;Tex.;Ind.;La.;Ala.;Tenn.;N.C.;S.C.;Pacific Islands (Hawaii);Ga.;Okla.;Ky.;Fla.;Ark.
|discussion=<p><i>Digitaria violascens</i> is a weedy species that is native to tropical regions of the Eastern Hemisphere. It is now established in the Flora region, primarily in the south-eastern United States, and in Mexico and Central America. It grows in disturbed sites.</p>
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|family=Poaceae
|distribution=Puerto Rico;Mass.;Miss.;Tex.;Ind.;La.;Ala.;Tenn.;N.C.;S.C.;Pacific Islands (Hawaii);Ga.;Okla.;Ky.;Fla.;Ark.
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Paniceae
|genus=Digitaria
|species=Digitaria violascens
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