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Betiri crabgrass (Digitaria betiri)

Betiri crabgrass (Digitaria betiri) is a species of plant in the Poaceae, perennial, erect, not rhizome, flowers growing in branching panicles with dense tufts at the upper end of the plant, solitary but may be in colonies in forests, slopes, farms and fields displaced.

D. betiri has erect stems, single, cylindrical, up to 100 cm high, segmented, green or reddish in color and partially covered with leaves.

Dlium Betiri crabgrass (Digitaria betiri)


The leaves are ribbon-shaped, elongated, pointed at the ends, like paper, leathery, green, white-haired, a white vein in the middle with light-colored linear stripes.

Inflorescence in panicles at the tip of the primary stem, erect and branching. Flowers are red. The fruits are grain, elongated round with a pointed tip and flattened, bald and green.



Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Subphylum: Angiospermae
Class: Liliopsida
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Panicoideae
Tribe: Paniceae
Subtribe: Anthephorinae
Genus: Digitaria
Species: Digitaria betiri

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