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|accepted_name=Digitaria insularis
|accepted_authority=(L.) Mez ex Ekman
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|name=Trichachne insularis
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|rank=species
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae;Poaceae tribe Paniceae;Digitaria;Digitaria insularis
|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 insularis]]</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>perennial; cespitose, shortly rhizomatous, with knotty bases. <b>Culms</b> 80-130 cm, erect, with densely villous cataphylls, branching from the lower and middle nodes. <b>Sheaths</b> usually sparsely to densely papillose-hirsute, occasionally glabrous; ligules 4-6 mm, usually lacerate, not ciliate; blades 20-50 cm long, 10-17 mm wide, lax, smooth or scabridulous abaxially, scabridulous to scabrous adaxially. <b>Panicles</b> 20-35 cm long, 2-10 cm wide, with numerous spikelike primary branches; primary branches 10-15 cm, appressed to ascending at maturity, axes not wing-margined or with wings less than 1/2 as wide as the midribs; internodes 3-4.5(6) mm (midbranch), bearing spikelets in unequally pedicellate pairs; secondary branches rarely present; pedicels not adnate to the branches; shorter pedicels 0.7-2 mm; longer pedicels 2.5-5 mm; terminal pedicels 2-5 mm. <b>Spikelets</b> 5.5-8.2 mm (including pubescence), 4.2-5.9 mm (excluding pubescence), narrowly ovate, acuminate. <b>Lower</b> glumes 0.6-0.8 mm; upper glumes 3.5-4.5 mm, 3-5-veined, pubescent on the margins; lower lemmas 4.1-5.7 mm (exceeded 1.5-5 mm by pubescence), narrowly ovate, 7-veined, pubescent between most, sometimes all, of the veins and on the margins, veins usually obscured by a dense covering of golden-brown hairs, hairs 3-6 mm, spreading at maturity, intercostal regions on either side of the midvein glabrous or pubescent with shorter, fine, white hairs, sometimes intermixed with the golden-brown hairs; upper lemmas 3.2-4.5 mm, narrowly ovate, brown when immature, dark brown at maturity, acuminate; anthers 1-1.2 mm. <b>2n</b> = 36.</span><!--

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|distribution=Puerto Rico;Tex.;Virgin Islands;Ala.;Pacific Islands (Hawaii);Ill.;Miss.;Ariz.;Fla.
|discussion=<p><i>Digitaria insularis</i> grows in low, open ground of the southern United States, and extends to the West Indies, Mexico, and through Central America to Argentina.</p>
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name=Digitaria insularis
|authority=(L.) Mez ex Ekman
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Trichachne insularis
|basionyms=
|family=Poaceae
|illustrator=Linda A. Vorobik;Hana Pazdírková
|illustration copyright=Utah State University
|distribution=Puerto Rico;Tex.;Virgin Islands;Ala.;Pacific Islands (Hawaii);Ill.;Miss.;Ariz.;Fla.
|reference=None
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Paniceae
|genus=Digitaria
|species=Digitaria insularis
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