Digitaria Haller f.
Rhachis with spikelets to the base or devoid of spikelets up to 1 cm from the base
Spikelets pubescent with short fine hairs with verrucose walls, 1.3–1.8 mm long. Lower glume absent or minute; upper glume equalling the sterile lemma and both as long as the spikelet. Racemes usually 2–3, subdigitate, 3–8 cm long. Upper leaf sheaths glabrous. Stoloniferous annual with culms up to 50 cm high. Coast. Fl. summer Digitaria longiflora
Spikelet with fine white hairs with ± smooth walls, 2–3 mm long. Lower glume minute, ovate; upper glume two-thirds to three-quarters as long as the spikelet. Sterile lemma as long as the lower glume. Racemes usually 2–3, digitate, 2–7 cm long. Leaf sheaths pilose. Tufted, slender, stoloniferous perennial up to 40 cm high. Coast. Fl. summer. Queensland Blue Couch Digitaria didactyla