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Glumes 2 with 1 sterile lemma (Fig. 50 a) Digitaria
Rhachis with spikelets to the base or devoid of spikelets up to 1 cm from the base
Spikelets hirsute to glabrous
Plants with long prostrate stolons and tufted culms
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