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Digitaria ciliaris (Retz.) Koeler   (redirected from: Digitaria sanguinalis var. ciliaris (Retz.) Parl.)
Family: Poaceae
[Digitaria adscendens (Kunth) Henrard, moreDigitaria chinensis Hornem., Digitaria marginata Link, Digitaria sanguinalis var. ciliaris (Retz.) Parl., Digitaria sanguinalis var. marginata (Link) Fernald, Digitaria sericea (Honda) Honda ex Ohwi, Panicum adscendens Kunth, Panicum ciliare Retz., Panicum sanguinale var. ciliare (Retz.) St.-Amans, Syntherisma ciliaris (Retz.) Schrad., Syntherisma sericea Honda]
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Japan Flora: Diffuse, hirsute or rarely glabrescent an­nual; culms erect, 30-80 cm. long, ascending to creeping from branching base, glabrous; leaf-blades flat, linear, &-20 cm. long, 5-12 mm. wide, glabrous to sparingly hairy, often somewhat glaucous; ligules hyaline, 1-3 mm. long, glabrous; sheaths mostly hirsute; racemes 3-8, ascending to spreading, pale green, often somewhat purplish, 5-15 cm. long; rachis scabrous on margins; spikelets appressed, about 3 mm. long, rather acuminate, lanceolate; first glume deltoid, minute, the second lanceolate, 3/5-2/3 as long as the spikelet, 3-nerved, acumi­nate, pubescent; sterile lemma longer, broadly lanceolate, membranous, pubescent especially toward the margins; fertile lemma lanceolate, herbaceous, acuminate, lead-gray to white, as long as the sterile one. July-Nov. Waste grounds and cultivated fields.

Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu; very common and variable. Widespread in warmer regions.

Many specimens with long-ci]iate spikelets often considered to be D. fimbriata Link. but this variant scarcely merits nomenclatural recognition.

Digitaria ciliaris
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