CHR 499181 – Digitaria stenotaphrodes (Nees ex Steud.) Stapf
Data provider:
Allan Herbarium
Barcode:
CHR 499181
Specimen type:
Sheet
Database record added:
27 January 1995
Database record updated:
14 April 2016
Components
Primary component
Active identification
Determined name:
Digitaria stenotaphrodes (Nees ex Steud.) Stapf
Determiner:
W.R. Sykes
Identification date:
1993-08-08 (Verbatim: 8 Aug 1993)
Preferred name:
Digitaria stenotaphrodes (Nees ex Steud.) Stapf
Division:
Magnoliophyta
Class:
Liliopsida
Order:
Cyperales
Family:
Gramineae
Identification type:
Determination
Collection events
Primary collection event
Collection event type:
Field
Standard locality
Location:
One Tree Island
Verbatim locality:
One Tree Island
Verbatim collector:
W.R. Sykes 4489/CI
Standardised collector:
William R. Sykes
Verbatim date:
8 Aug 1993
Start date:
1993-08-08
Country:
Cook Islands
Land District:
Suwarrow
Habitat:
In coral sand over hard coral; low Pemphis scrub.
Notes:
Tufted grass with erect to sprawling habit, sometimes forming a clump. Leaves bright green or somewhat blue-green, sloping forward mainly. Inflorescence erect or suberect, spikes remaining together, light green. Spikelets sunken in rachis cavities, c. 4 mm long; first glume absent or represented by a line; seond glume c. 1.5 mm, triangular, appressed minutely puberulent, midrib thick and elevated; apex acute. Lemma = length of spikelet, minutely puberulent, with 5 thick ribs; the sides clasping side of spikelet. Caryopsis 2-2.2 mm long. Palea = spikelet, shining, light brown. A small area of 2-3 hectares at most, but there common or fairly common with many large clumps. Not seen elsewhere on One Tree Island (searching rather cursory) and not seen elsewhere on Suwarrow, although other seabird nesting motus visited. Probably population severely damaged by Hurrican Val, 18 months earlier.
Observed species:
Lepturus repens
Pemphis acidula
Pemphis acidula
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