Digitaria
37 species in Aust. ( 10 naturalized); all states and territories
Spikelets with 1 bisexual floret and a sterile lemma below it, in pairs (rarely 3s), one of them pedicellate the other sessile or almost so, arranged alternately in 2 rows on the upper side of a frequently winged rhachis. Lower glume small or absent; upper glume larger or equalling the sterile lemma. Inflorescence digitate or racemosely arranged spike-like racemes.