FTA 9: 447 (1919).- Type: Thollon 391, Congo, Brazzaville (holo- K,P).
Panicum brazzae Bull. Soc. Hist. Nat. Autun 8: 355 (1895) ;
Digitaria sulcigluma Chiov., Ann. Bot. Roma 13: 41 (1914).- Type: Bovone 86, DRC (holo- TO) ;
Digitaria lomanensis Mez, E.J. 57: 192 (1921).- Type: Pogge 1519, DRC (holo- B, destr.).
Regional litterature: Fl. Agrost. Congo Belge 2: 30 (1934); FTEA: 627 (1982).
Description:
* Densely tufted perennial, the basal sheaths silky pubescent to tomentose, rarely becoming fibrous, 0.6-1.3 m high. Culms erect. Leaves 8-30 cm long and 3-10 mm wide.
* Inflorescence of 2-12 digitate racemes. Racemes 10-20 cm long, the spikelets ternate on a triquetrous winged rhachis.
* Spikelets narrowly ovate, 2-3 mm long. Kower glume a truncate cuff 0.2-0.5 mm long; upper glume ½-3/4 as long as spikelt, white villous with straight hairs. Lower lemma as long as spikelet, 5-nerved, depressed and hyaline besides the midnerve, with stiff hairs, forming 2 tufts at the base and fringing the upper half of the margin, these extending 1-2 mm beyond the acuminate tip of the sikelet; fruit gibbously ellipsoid, strongly keeled near the base, rostrate, pallidly gry or brown.
Distribution West Africa: CAR.
Distribution world-wide: Congo, DRC and Tanzania, southern Africa.