Fl. Ind. Bat. 3: 437 (1857).- Type: Haenke s.n., Philippines (syn- PR) ; Junghuhn s.n., Indonesia, Padang (syn- L).
Panicum radicosum Presl, Rel. Haenk. 1: 297 (1830);
Panicum timorense Kunth, Enum. PI. 1: 83 (1833); Rév. Gram.: 587 (1834);
Digitaria timorensis (Kunth) Bal., in Morot, J. Bot. 4: 138 (1890).
Regional litterature: FWTA: 452 (1972). FTEA: 651 (1982); Gram. Cameroun: 324 (1992)
Description:
* Annual of 20-40 cm high. Culms rambling, slender. Leaves lanceolate, 2-7 mm long and 2-5 mm wide, rugose or slightly hairy.
* Inflorescence in 2-4 digitate racemes. Racemes unilateral, 3-9 cm long; rhachis triquetrous, narrowly winged, smooth on the margins. Spikelets in pairs, packing 0.5 their length apart on unequal pedicels.
* Spikelets lanceolate, 2.5-3 mm long and 0.6 mm wide. Lower glume a small hyaline, obtuse scale of 0.1-0.2 mm long; upper glume 1/3-1/2 as long as spikelet, membranous, 3-veined, pubescent, acute. Lower lemma without palea, elliptic, as long as spikelet, membranous, with 5-7 unevenly speced veins, pubescent, acute; upper lemma lanceolate, as long as spikelet, cartilaginous, yellow or light brown, its margins much thinner and covering most of the lemma, acute.
Distribution West Africa: Cameroon, introduced.
Distribution world-wide: Asia, Australia, introduced in Tanzania.