Systematics Collections Data

CHR 672442 – Digitaria Haller

Data provider:
Allan Herbarium
Barcode:
CHR 672442
Specimen type:
Sheet
Database record added:
23 December 2021
Database record updated:
23 December 2021
Components
Primary component
Active identification
Determined name:
Digitaria Haller
Determiner:
P. Gardner
Identification date:
1996-08-18 (Verbatim: 18 Aug 1996)
Preferred name:
Digitaria Haller
Division:
Magnoliophyta
Class:
Liliopsida
Order:
Cyperales
Family:
Gramineae
Identification type:
Determination
Collection events
Primary collection event
Collection event type:
Field
Standard locality
Location:
Avarua, behind market
Verbatim locality:
Avarua, behind market
Verbatim collector:
P. Gardner 10584
Standardised collector:
P. Gardner
Verbatim date:
18 Aug 1996
Start date:
1996-08-18
Country:
Cook Islands
Notes:
Young plant ± upright, purplish. Lower sheaths hairy, upper sheaths much less no, almost glabrous. Long hairs at junctions with blade on lower leaves. ± absent on upper ligule ± purple sometimes with marginal hairs from minute tubercle, tip truncate serrate. Blade to 6 x 0.6 cm. Finely scabrous, one side of blade finely waved or crumped, the other smooth. Culm 20 cm long from upper most node. Racemes 3(4) to 7.5 cm long. Rachis broadly 2 - winged 1 mm wide, wavy, serrated. Spikelets 3-3.5 mm long. Lower glume ovate c. 0.5 mm long. Upper glume lanceolate c. 2.5 mm long. C. 2/3 length og spikelet very hairy particularly when mature. Lower lemma 3 - (5) narrow - apiculate. Upper lemma smooth.
Permissions
Project permits
Reference:
CHR Collection - Local Contexts
Biocultural (BC) Notice