Monogr. Digitaria: 284 (1950).- Type: Trochain 570, Senegal, Hann (holo- P).
Regional litterature: FWTA: 454 (1972).
Description:
* Annual of 0.3-1 m high. Culms geniculately ascending, 4-5 mm diameter; internodes elliptical in section, distally glabrous. Leaves linear to lanceolate, 5-10 cm long and 2-3
mm wide, glabrous or sparsely hairy, margins scaberulous, acuminate.
* Inflorescence 5-9 racemes, digitate or borne along the central axis of 3-4 cm long. Racemes unilateral, 6-10 cm long; rhachis wingles, angular, glabrous but basis hirsute.
* Spikelets lanceolate, acute, 3.7-4 mm long. Lower glume absent or obscure; upper glume elliptic, as long as spikelet, membranous, 3-veined, puberulous and acute. Lower floret sterile, lemma as upper glume, with 5 equidistant veins, central interspaces glabrous; upper lemma elliptic, 3.5 mm long, cartilaginous, striatre, acute.
Distribution West Africa and world-wide: Senegal.