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|accepted_name=Digitaria didactyla
|accepted_authority=Willd.
|publications=
|common_names=Blue couch
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae;Poaceae tribe Paniceae;Digitaria;Digitaria didactyla
|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 didactyla]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 25
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 376
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial; stoloniferous and rhizomatous, mat-forming. <b>Culms</b> 15-40(63) cm, rooting and branching from the lower nodes. <b>Sheaths</b> densely to sparsely hairy, with 3-5 mm papillose-based hairs; ligules 1-1.5 mm; blades 2.5-7 cm long, 1-3 mm wide, flat or folded, usually glabrous, green to bluish-green. <b>Panicles</b> with 2-4 spikelike primary branches digitately arranged; primary branches 2-7 cm, axes wing-margined, wings at least 1/2 as wide as the midribs, spikelets somewhat imbricate, in unequally pedicellate pairs; secondary branches rarely present; pedicels not adnate to the branches; shorter pedicels 1-1.5 mm; longer pedicels 2-3 mm; axillary panicles not present. <b>Spikelets</b> homomorphic, 2-2.8 mm long, about 0.8 mm wide. <b>Lower</b> glumes to 0.3 mm, triangular; upper glumes from 1/2 - 3/4 as long as the spikelets, 3-veined, pilose on the margins and sometimes between the veins; upper lemmas equaling the spikelets, prominently 7-veined, veins equally spaced, margins and sometimes the intercostal regions pilose, hairs 0.3-0.5 mm; upper lemmas slightly shorter than the lower lemmas, almost smooth, gray, sometimes purple-tinged, at maturity. <b>2n</b> = unknown.</span><!--

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|discussion=<p>A native of Africa, <i>Digitaria didactyla</i> is often cultivated as a lawn grass in tropical and subtropical regions. It has been grown experimentally in Florida, but is not otherwise known from the Flora region.</p>
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name=Digitaria didactyla
|authority=Willd.
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Poaceae
|illustrator=Linda A. Vorobik;Hana Pazdírková
|illustration copyright=Utah State University
|reference=None
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|source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/bb6b7e3a7de7d3b7888a1ad48c7fd8f5c722d8d6/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V25/V25_1077.xml
|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Paniceae
|genus=Digitaria
|species=Digitaria didactyla
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