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|accepted_name=Digitaria hitchcockii
|accepted_authority=(Chase) Stuck.
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|basionyms=
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae;Poaceae tribe Paniceae;Digitaria;Digitaria hitchcockii
|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 hitchcockii]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 25
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 366
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial; rhizomatous, rhizomes short, giving the plants hard, knotty, much-branched bases. <b>Culms</b> 20-55 cm, erect, sometimes geniculate, not rooting at the lower nodes. <b>Basal</b> sheaths tomentose; culm sheaths glabrous or variously pubescent (puberulent, ciliate, or sparsely hirsute); ligules (0.1)0.5-1(1.5) mm, ciliate; blades 2-5.5 cm long, 2-3 mm wide. <b>Panicles</b> with 3-6 spikelike primary branches on 6-10(15) cm rachises; primary branches 1-6 cm, not or only narrowly winged, bearing spikelets in unequally pedicellate pairs, pedicels not adnate to the branch axes; shorter pedicels 1.5-2 mm; longer pedicels 3-4 mm. <b>Spikelets</b> homomorphic, 2.5-3.1 mm (including pubescence), 2.4-3 mm (excluding pubescence). <b>Lower</b> glumes 0.3-1 mm, veinless; upper glumes 2.1-3 mm (including pubescence), as long as or exceeding the upper florets by no more than 0.5 mm, 3-veined, densely appressed-pubescent, hairs 0.5-1 mm, white to purple, tapering or parallel-sided, not spreading at maturity; lower lemmas 2.3-3.1 mm (including pubescence), as long as or exceeding the upper lemmas by up to 0.5 mm, 5-veined, veins equally spaced, intercostal regions densely appressed-pubescent, hairs 0.5-1 mm, white to purple, tapering or parallel-sided, not spreading at maturity; upper lemmas 2.2-2.5 mm, brown when immature, dark brown at maturity. <b>Caryopses</b> 2.1-3.4 mm. <b>2n</b> = 36.</span><!--

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|distribution=Virgin Islands;Tex.
|discussion=<p><i>Digitaria hitchcockii</i> is an uncommon species of open, dry, gravelly slopes in southwestern Texas and northern Mexico.</p>
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name=Digitaria hitchcockii
|authority=(Chase) Stuck.
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Poaceae
|illustrator=Linda A. Vorobik;Hana Pazdírková
|illustration copyright=Utah State University
|distribution=Virgin Islands;Tex.
|reference=None
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Paniceae
|genus=Digitaria
|species=Digitaria hitchcockii
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