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Introduced, warm-season, annual to short-lived perennial, low-growing, prostrate to ascending, hairy legume. Leaves have 5 leaflets, each narrow-ovate to lanceolate, hairy and 5-20 mm long. Flowerheads have 2-4 yellow pea-like flowers (about 7 mm long) in the leaf axils. Pods are narrow, cylindrical and 6-15 mm long. Flowering is in spring and summer. A native of the Mediterranean region, it is widespread in grasslands. Provides a low yield of high quality feed, with a low bloat risk. Adapted to low fertility soils and shows low to moderate response to applied phosphorus. It is slow to establish and has slow initial growth, but is tolerant of heavy continuous grazing.
Amaranthaceae (amaranth family) » Gomphrena serrata
gom-FREE-nuh -- from the Latin gomphaena, ancient classical name for an amaranth
sair-AY-tuh or ser-RAT-uh -- toothed like a saw
commonly known as: coastal globe amaranth, prostrate globe amaranth, prostrate gomphrena
Native of: s-c & s-e USA, Mesoamerica, Caribbean Islands; naturalized elsewhere
References: Flowers of India • NPGS / GRIN • eFlora
Boraginaceae (forget-me-not family) » Coldenia procumbens
kol-DEN-ee-uh -- named for Cadwallader Colden, correspondent of Linnaeus
pro-KUM-benz -- lying along the ground
commonly known as: creeping coldenia • Gujarati: basario okharad • Hindi: त्रिपंखी tripankhi • Kannada: ಹಂಸಪಾದಿ hamsapaadi • Konkani: तिरपंखी tirpunkhi • Marathi: त्रिपक्षी tripakshi, त्रिपंखी tripankhi • Oriya: moyinibuta • Sanskrit: त्रिपक्षी tripakshi • Tamil: ஆற்றுச்செருப்படி arru-c-ceruppati, தலைவிரிச்சான் talai-viriccan • Telugu: హంసపాది hamsa-padi
Native range obscure: tropical Africa, India, Sri Lanka, s-e Asia, n Australia; naturalized elsewhere
References: Flowers of India • NPGS / GRIN • ENVIS - FRLHT • DDSA
A resinous prostrate Rock Nettle, native to northwestern Mexico. Photo from Batopilas Canyon, Chihuahua State.
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Beautiful federally-listed endangered endemic Hawaiian species. This is the prostrate form from Ka Lae, Hawai'i Island.
This particular form of this variable species is my most favourite because of the subtle uniqueness of its leaf shape and the lovely yellow flowers which are normally red/orange.
This summer I diligently hand-pollinated each blossom so to get as as much seed as possible!
Native, warm season, perennial herb with prostrate or twining branches. Has an unpleasant odour like fish-based plant fertiliser when crushed. Leaves are alternate, stalked, broad-triangular, hastate and to 5 cm long. Flowerheads are or reduced to axillary clusters. Flowers are small and bisexual, with 5 perianth segments and 1 or 2 stamens. Fruit are dry at maturity. Flowering is in summer and autumn. Grows in grassy woodlands and sclerophyll forests. A very fast coloniser of bare or disturbed sites following summer rainfall. Useful as a stabiliser of bare soils.
Prostrate perennial knawel (Scleranthus perennis spp. prostratus) in flower. This species is globally restricted to the Breckland area of Norfolk and Suffolk. It is unable to compete with more vigorous plants such as grasses. The sandy, nutrient-poor soils of the Brecks heaths and its dynamic, steppe-like climate provide the conditions that Prostrate perennial knawel requires. Back from the Brink Primary Species, 'Shifting Sands' project, Suffolk, UK. July.
Credit: Alex Hyde / Back from the Brink
Introduced, cool-season, annual, prostrate legume; may grow to 50 cm tall under good conditions. Leaves have 3 oval to heart-shaped leaflets; each hairless, 10-20 mm long and with serrations towards the tip. The stalk of central leaflet is longer than the lateral ones. Flowerheads consist of 1-3 yellow pea-like flowers in the leaf axils. Burrs are coiled and have hooked spines (rarely spineless). Flowers in late winter and spring. A native of the Mediterranean, it is occasional on floodplains and in disturbed areas (e.g. roadsides) on the coast where the soils are heavier and slightly acid to alkaline. Rarely abundant on the coast, but a valuable legume in inland low to medium rainfall areas. It is palatable and nutritious, and can provide some useful autumn-spring feed after adequate cool season rain. If consumed in excessive quantities it can cause bloat and photosensitisation.
A prostrate, creeping species abundant in river gallery forest and rainforest in Dinden State Forest and the Dinden National Park.
Introduced, warm-season, annual, erect or prostrate, tufted grass to 1 m tall. Leaves are flat, hairless (except for a few scattered hairs near the base) and usually have a pale midrib. There is no ligule. Flowerheads are an erect primary axis of racemes (to 22 cm long) with relatively short branches; with conspicuous hairs in the axils and along the racemes. Spikelets are 2.5-4 mm long and 2 flowered (fertile lemma smooth and shiny), with the apices ending abruptly in a short point or having an awn to 5 cm long. Flowers during the warmer months. Possibly a native of Asia, it is a common weed of disturbed areas, especially where there is excess moisture (e.g. wasteland, agricultural land, riverbanks, drains, shallow/drying swamps). An indicator of disturbed moist areas. A weed of summer crops. Produces palatable and good quality feed when grazed during early growth stages, but becomes harsh and unpalatable when mature. Toxic levels of nitrate can accumulate in the plant; this is especially dangerous when the plant is wilted and more attractive to stock. Rarely managed individually in pastures due to its low abundance in coastal pastures. Will decrease where dense ground cover is maintained over summer.
Tilden Prostrate Sage (Salvia leucophylla) and a busy bee, at the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, located up the road behind the historic Santa Barbara Mission in Santa Barbara, California.
Introduced, warm-season, annual, erect or prostrate, tufted grass to 1 m tall. Leaves are flat, hairless (except for a few scattered hairs near the base) and usually have a pale midrib. There is no ligule. Flowerheads are an erect primary axis of racemes (to 22 cm long) with relatively short branches; with conspicuous hairs in the axils and along the racemes. Spikelets are 2.5-4 mm long and 2 flowered (fertile lemma smooth and shiny), with the apices ending abruptly in a short point or having an awn to 5 cm long. Flowers during the warmer months. Possibly a native of Asia, it is a common weed of disturbed areas, especially where there is excess moisture (e.g. wasteland, agricultural land, riverbanks, drains, shallow/drying swamps). An indicator of disturbed moist areas. A weed of summer crops. Produces palatable and good quality feed when grazed during early growth stages, but becomes harsh and unpalatable when mature. Toxic levels of nitrate can accumulate in the plant; this is especially dangerous when the plant is wilted and more attractive to stock. Rarely managed individually in pastures due to its low abundance in coastal pastures. Will decrease where dense ground cover is maintained over summer.
Fragment of talatat showing prostrate servants, from the Aten Temple at Karnak, Dynasty XVIII.
Musee du Louvre. E32558
Bryoria chalybeiformis 'Resplendent Horsehair' is a dark brown, shiny, prostrate or decumbent fruticose lichen. It is noted for two things, Firstly it is found on soil or on siliceous rocks often in alpine conditions and secondly the main branches are much larger than the secondary ones (up to 2mm here) and are irregular, flattened, pitted and channeled. This beautiful, large (14 cm) specimen was collected on July 7, 2011 by Sandra Davis at The Plateau mountain Ecological Reserve growing on pebbly soil. Photographed in my basement. 7857October 07, 2011
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Family : Proteaceae
ID Thanks to ibsut and Tony Rodd
Here at Round Head Headland near Town of 1770 this species occurs side by side in both red and white (or cream) coloured forms.
Interestingly, this is the site where Captain Cook and Joseph Banks, presumably who the species was named after, came ashore on the 24th May 1770.
The following is from Tony Rodd - re the naming of Grevillea banksii. ((See comment on another photo)
G. banksii was named by Robert Brown in 1810, in the Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. Brown stated its origin as "In Novae Hollandiae ora orientale: Keppel Bay, Pine Port, &c". The actual specimen in the British Museum, chosen as lectotype by McGillivray and Makinson from among Brown's collections in the British Museum, is cited by them as "Port I [between Facing and Curtis Islands, near Gladstone]".
Here is a few other pics I have of a taller growing Grevillea banksii I have growing here at home.
Introduced, cool-season annual, stemless or short-stemmed herb to 30 cm tall. Leaves form a prostrate rosette to 50 cm in diameter; they are spear shaped, serrated, deeply lobed; upper surface hairless to hairy; lower surface white felted. Flowerheads occur on unbranched peduncles. Ray florets are yellow, ligulate and sterile; disc florets are dark, tubular and bisexual. Germinates in autumn/winter; flowers in spring. A native of South Africa, it is strongly competitive weed of crops, pastures, lawns and disturbed areas (e.g. roadsides). Prefers lighter textured soils of reasonable fertility and where there is a lack of competition. Grazed by stock, but is of lower value than many good pasture species. Can cause nitrate poisoning in sheep and cattle on high fertility soils; taints milk; causes allergic skin reaction in horses and donkeys. Best managed using a number of methods: competition, grazing, mechanical, herbicides. Maintain dense, vigorous pastures and minimise soil disturbance. Needs to be controlled in year prior to sowing pastures; control is easiest at the seedling stage. Combined knockdown herbicides prior to sowing, selective post-sowing herbicides or manuring of crops and pastures can be highly effective for control.
Polygonum aviculare, prostrate knotweed, with white-margined tepals, colonizes regularly disturbed sites in the Idaho National Laboratory, especially roadsides. This species was not detected in sagebrush steppe with high native plant cover. This site lies near a construction site in the sagebrush steppe of the Idaho National Laboratory, north of highway 20 just off Taylor Blvd, Bingham County, Idaho (close to the Butte County line).
"Prostrate to ascending shrub, 0.15-0.6 m high. Fl. blue-purple/blue-white, Oct to Dec or Jan. Sandy soils. Swampy areas." florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/browse/profile/7572
Photos: Fred and Jean
Introduced, warm-season, annual to short-lived perennial, low-growing, prostrate to ascending, hairy legume. Leaves have 5 leaflets, each narrow-ovate to lanceolate, hairy and 5-20 mm long. Flowerheads have 2-4 yellow pea-like flowers (about 7 mm long) in the leaf axils. Pods are narrow, cylindrical and 6-15 mm long. Flowering is in spring and summer. A native of the Mediterranean region, it is widespread in grasslands. Provides a low yield of high quality feed, with a low bloat risk. Adapted to low fertility soils and shows low to moderate response to applied phosphorus. It is slow to establish and has slow initial growth, but is tolerant of heavy continuous grazing.
Introduced, warm-season, perennial, prostrate to erect, woody herb or shrub to 1 m tall. Stems are reddish, hairless, with weak opposite longitudinal ridges; they arise from rhizomes or woody crowns. Leaves are opposite, sessile, hairless, to 3 cm long and have many translucent dots (oil glands) that are easily seen when held to the light. Flowerheads are panicles or corymbose cymes. Flowers are numerous and 15-20 mm wide. Petals are yellow and have black glands on their edges. Styles are 3-branched. Fruit are sticky 3-valved capsules, 5 to 10 mm long. Flowers in late spring and summer. Found in neglected pastures, sparse bushland and disturbed areas. Tiny seeds spread by water and in soil, hay and livestock. Sticky fruits adhere to animals; long runners spread from crowns. Causes photosensitisation and numerous other disorders in livestock; animals tend to recover once removed. Established plants are very competitive and are best controlled by herbicides or, if suitable, by cultivation. Introduced insect (Chrysolina beetles) and mite (St John’s wort mite ) predators provide good levels of control in many areas. Promote dense, healthy pastures to compete with seedlings, which are not robust.
Introduced, cool-season, annual, prostrate legume; may grow to 50 cm tall under good conditions. Leaves have 3 oval to heart-shaped leaflets; each hairless, 10-20 mm long and with serrations towards the tip. The stalk of central leaflet is longer than the lateral ones. Flowerheads consist of 1-3 yellow pea-like flowers in the leaf axils. Burrs are coiled and have hooked spines (rarely spineless). Flowers in late winter and spring. A native of the Mediterranean, it is occasional on floodplains and in disturbed areas (e.g. roadsides) on the coast where the soils are heavier and slightly acid to alkaline. Rarely abundant on the coast, but a valuable legume in inland low to medium rainfall areas. It is palatable and nutritious, and can provide some useful autumn-spring feed after adequate cool season rain. If consumed in excessive quantities it can cause bloat and photosensitisation.
Introduced, cool-season, annual, low-growing, hairless legume, with prostrate to ascending stems. Leaves have 3 leaflets, each oblong to round and 4-13 mm long. The central leaflet has a distinctly longer stalk than the lateral ones. Flowerheads are loose to somewhat dense hemispherical clusters (6-7 mm long) of 3-20 yellow pea-like flowers. Flowering is in spring. A native of Europe, it is found in pastures, woodlands, lawns and roadsides. Although it often occurs at reasonably high density in short pastures, productivity is low and it has a high proportion of stem to leaf. It is palatable and grows from autumn to early summer (very dependent on rainfall), but only produces useful amounts of feed in spring. Requires moist soil for growth, so tends to burn-off rapidly in late spring as temperatures rise and soil moisture often remains low. Growth increases with applied phosphorus as long as pastures are kept short in late winter and early spring, but the response is likely to be too small to be economic.
A prostrate plant with bumpy orangy fruit. This specimen was found in limestone/sand, acacia scrubland near the coast around Mandurah. It's not a very showy plant, I never noticed it (including the flowers) until the fruit appeared.
Devotees prostrate themselves with deep devotion on their way to the Labrang Monastery to carry out their religious duties .
Native, warm season, perennial herb. Stems are creeping, prostrate to decumbent and slender, with strongly retrorse-strigose hairs. Leaves are hastate, 2.5–8 cm long and 6–17 mm wide,with hairs on veins and margins; ocreas have scattered rather spreading hairs, hairless on upper margin. Flowerheads have 1–6 small, rather isolated clusters borne on 2 or 3 relatively long branches at 5–15 mm intervals; only 1 mature flower per cluster at any one time. Perianth segments are 2.7–4.0 mm long and pink or white. Widespread, but occasional, in eastern Australia, occurring on the coast and Western Slopes. Grows on margins of swamps and lagoons. Not eaten by stock unless desperate.
Picea abies 'Vermont Gold' 22W49 Norway J4- (Greg Williams, VT 1990s) Prostrate Norway Spruce, Size at 10 years: 6in.x4ft., golden, USDA Hardiness Zone 3, Michigan Bloom Month -, In Garden Bed J4 for 3.6 YEARS (Stanley). Planted in 2019.
American Conifer Society: Picea abies 'Vermont Gold' is a broadly spreading, slow-growing selection of Norway spruce with layered branches and golden-yellow foliage that looks its best when given 3 to 4 hours of morning sun. If grown in shade, plants will appears greenish yellow and if grown in full sun young plants will burn badly.
After 10 years of growth, a mature specimen will measure 2 feet (60 cm) tall and 4 feet (1.3 m) wide, an annual growth rate of 4 to 6 inches (10 - 15 cm).
This cultivar originated as a golden branch sport found on a specimen of P. abies 'Repens' in the mid-1990s by Greg Williams of Kate Brook Nursery, Wolcott, Vermont, USA. It was first listed under the illegitimate name, 'Repens Aurea' and later changed. Another illegitimate synonym is 'Repens Gold.'
Stanley & Sons Nursery: A prostrate, golden form of Norway Spruce. Leaves solid gold and normal size. Plant completely prostrate. Old name of cultivar is `Picea abies `Repens Aurea'. Grows 4 to 6 inches a year. Found and introduced by Greg Williams.
Photo by F.D.Richards, SE Michigan. Link to additional photos of this plant from 2022:
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thursday, june 10, 2010
prostrating on the floor in bruce's hallway.
today i:
- went to macy's to buy tickets for Peter Pan for a show tonight with matt, dana, bruce, and andrew. it was great!
- went to get my eyebrows threaded at cinta. thanks bhavna!
- went to the gap
then we went to see peter pan and it was great. i loved the flying.
Also known as scrub pohuehue or wire vine.
Photographed at Kaitoreti Spit, Canterbury.
Note the endemic prostrate broom creeping out from under the muehlenbeckia. This is a rare native broom endemic to the Kaitoreti Spit.
Often confused as a shrub because of its habit on piling up high on itself, or another plant, to form a dense tangled shrub-like mass that be a metre or so high.
A common creeping tangled vine of the New Zealand coast. Great lizard habitat and lizards play a role in spreading the seed.
Introduced, cool-season annual, stemless or short-stemmed herb to 30 cm tall. Leaves form a prostrate rosette to 50 cm in diameter; they are spear shaped, serrated, deeply lobed; upper surface hairless to hairy; lower surface white felted. Flowerheads occur on unbranched peduncles. Ray florets are yellow, ligulate and sterile; disc florets are dark, tubular and bisexual. Germinates in autumn/winter; flowers in spring. A native of South Africa, it is strongly competitive weed of crops, pastures, lawns and disturbed areas (e.g. roadsides). Prefers lighter textured soils of reasonable fertility and where there is a lack of competition. Grazed by stock, but is of lower value than many good pasture species. Can cause nitrate poisoning in sheep and cattle on high fertility soils; taints milk; causes allergic skin reaction in horses and donkeys. Best managed using a number of methods: competition, grazing, mechanical, herbicides. Maintain dense, vigorous pastures and minimise soil disturbance. Needs to be controlled in year prior to sowing pastures; control is easiest at the seedling stage. Combined knockdown herbicides prior to sowing, selective post-sowing herbicides or manuring of crops and pastures can be highly effective for control.
Sandstone talatat depicting a prostrated woman, from Amarna, Dynasty XVIII. Found at Medamud.
Musee du Louvre.
Cape Bailey Coastal Walk, Botany Bay National Park, New South Wales -- about 20 km SSE of Sydney.
This completely prostrate specimen was growing in sand in a rather sheltered hollow not far back from the cliffs. I suspect it is just an odd mutant. What is interesting is that it has the rather narrow, pointed phyllodes of normal A. longifolia, not the broad, rounded, fleshy ones seen on the low-growing foredune ecotype that goes under the name subsp. sophorae (which I don't believe in as a taxonomic concept).
Prostrate,warm-season, perennial herb forming dense mats up to 1.6 m across. Stems are thick and woody. Grey, hairy, slightly succulent, roughly spoon-shaped leaves are alternately arranged along the stems and 4–25 mm long. Flowers are tiny white to pink, found in the leaf axils and have 5 "petals" and 10 stamens. Fruit are small (2-3 mm across) cup-shaped capsules containing a small number of seeds. Flowering is from spring through to autumn. Not very common, but may be locally abundant, especially in the Hunter Valley. Often forms dense mats on roadsides, lawns, wasteland, and other disturbed areas. Tolerates drought and soil salinity. Most commonly found in areas receiving summer rainfall, on loam soils. Does not persist in areas that are regularly and frequently grazed. Successfully planted to stabilise mine tailing dumps, but has spread from there.
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Family : Proteaceae
ID Thanks to ibsut and Tony Rodd
Here at Round Head Headland near Town of 1770 this species occurs side by side in both red and white (or cream) coloured forms.
Interestingly, this is the site where Captain Cook and Joseph Banks, presumably who the species was named after, came ashore on the 24th May 1770.
The following is from Tony Rodd - re the naming of Grevillea banksii. ((See comment on another photo)
G. banksii was named by Robert Brown in 1810, in the Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. Brown stated its origin as "In Novae Hollandiae ora orientale: Keppel Bay, Pine Port, &c". The actual specimen in the British Museum, chosen as lectotype by McGillivray and Makinson from among Brown's collections in the British Museum, is cited by them as "Port I [between Facing and Curtis Islands, near Gladstone]".
Here is a few other pics I have of a taller growing Grevillea banksii I have growing here at home.
Introduced, warm-season, perennial, prostrate herb covered in stiff hairs. Stems are to 15 cm long. Leaves are opposite, hairy, narrow-ovate to ovate,0.5-2 cm long and 0.3-1 cm wide. Flowerheads are heads of up to 15 small white flowers, mostly with 4 petals and sepals. Flowering is from spring to autumn. A native of South America, it is a weed in coastal districts south from Newcastle in disturbed places, such as over-grazed pastures, stockyards and roadsides. An indicator of disturbance and poor ground cover. Of little importance to livestock grazing, as it usually occurs in low abundance, is very low growing and produces little bulk. Control is not required; abundance is suppressed with healthy vigorous pastures.
This is a very important Fatwa of Darul Ifta Ahle Sunnat of DawateIslami, a global non-political movement for the Quran and Sunnah.
A prostrate to semi-erect shrub found in eastern Australia. It occurs from as far south as Pigeon House Mountain north to Kendall, New South Wales on the mid north coast. A common plant in the Blue Mountains near Sydney. Found as far west as Blackheath. It is often noticed by bushwalkers for the attractive flowers and arching foliage. The specific epithet secundum means "arranged on one side only".
The habitat is moist rocky areas and wet cliff faces, usually on sandstone. Sites are nutrient poor with permanent moisture. The range of altitude is from sea level to 1100 metres above sea level, with an average annual rainfall between 900 mm and 1600 mm.
The shrub is around 60 cm tall with narrow crowded leaves with pointed tips. Leaves are 12 cm long by 1 cm wide, smooth edged or slightly toothed.
Flowering occurs mainly from July to October. Flowers are pink and white. Bell shaped flowers are 6 to 8 mm long, appearing on a long raceme. The fruit is a capsule, around 5 mm in diameter. Seeds are dispersed by wind, water and gravity.
This plant first appeared in scientific literature in the Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae in the year 1810, authored by Robert Brown.
Source: Wikipedia
This prostrate exotic annual forb flowers during middle to late summer and is most abundant on moderately disturbed settings such as roadsides and margins of gravelly draws. This site lies in a gravelly wash in the Wyoming big sagebrush steppe of the Idaho National Laboratory, east of Lincoln Blvd and off Seven Mile Road, Butte County, Idaho.
Native, warm season, perennial herb with prostrate or twining branches. Has an unpleasant odour like fish-based plant fertiliser when crushed. Leaves are alternate, stalked, broad-triangular, hastate and to 5 cm long. Flowerheads are or reduced to axillary clusters. Flowers are small and bisexual, with 5 perianth segments and 1 or 2 stamens. Fruit are dry at maturity. Flowering is in summer and autumn. Grows in grassy woodlands and sclerophyll forests. A very fast coloniser of bare or disturbed sites following summer rainfall. Useful as a stabiliser of bare soils.
Rawang, Selangor, Malaysia.
Justicia procumbens L. Acanthaceae. CN: Water willow. Native to the paleotropics; elsewhere naturalized. A slender, often tufted, prostrate or ascending, branched annual. Stems are 10 to 40 cm long. Leaves are elliptic to oblong-ovate or ovate, 7 to 20 mm long, 5 to 20 mm wide, obtuse at both ends, and entire or with slightly crenated margins. Flowers are pink, 6 to 7 mm long, and borne in terminal, rather dense cylindric spike 1 to 5 cms long and about 5 mm in diameter. Bracts and calyx-teeth are green, linear-lanceolate, and hairy. Fruit is slightly hairy and about 4 mm long. Traditionally used in folk medicine and in Taiwan as an ingredient of herbal tea.
Synonym(s):
Ecbolium procumbens (L.) Kuntze
Rostellaria adenostachya Nees
Rostellaria japonica Carrière
Rostellaria procumbens Nees
Rostellularia adenostachya Nees
Rostellularia juncea Nees
Rostellularia media Nees
Rostellularia mollissima Nees
Rostellularia pogonanthera F.Muell.
Rostellularia procumbens Nees
Rostellularia sarmentosa Zoll. ex Nees
Ref and suggested reading:
FRIM Flora Database
www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/kew-2329315
www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?428155
Native, warm-season, perennial prostrate to twining herb. Stems are relatively weak and may be herbaceous or woody (more so at the base). Leaves are usually less than 20mm long, with at least some narrow-sagittate, sagittate or hastate. Flowerheads rarely have sterile spine-like branches Flowers are small, green and 5 lobed. Fruit are subglobose, succulent and orange to red. Flowering can be year-round, but is mostly in summer and autumn. Found in woodlands and forests, mostly at the base of shrubs and trees.
Digitaria ciliaris (Retz.) Koel. [synonym D. adscendens (H.B.K.) Henr.] (Photo 115) — is a
decumbent or prostrate annual or short-lived perennial
20-60 cm tall. It branches freely and roots at
the lower nodes. The leaf sheath is usually hairy.
Leaf blades are flat and linear, 5-15 cm long and
3-8 mm wide. Leaves are usually hairless and have
scabrous, undulate margins. The ligule is membranous,
1-3 mm long, and truncate.
The inflorescence is a panicle of 3-8 racemes
5-15 cm long (Photo 116). They often occur in a
whorl at the top of the central stalk but are sometimes
arranged along a short common axis up to 2
cm long. The rachis is slender, winged, and hairless.
Spikelets, which are suppressed in two rows
along one side of the axis, are about 3 mm long.
The triangular lower glume is about 2 mm long;
the lanceolate upper glume is 1/2 to 4/5 the length
of the spikelet. The lower lemma is broadly lanceolate,
5-7 nerved, and variously pubescent.
The fruit is a variously elliptical caryopsis.
Part of the image collection of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)