Common name: Umbrella Canegrass
Leptochloa digitata (R.Br.) Domin APNI* 
Description: Erect, stout perennial to 2 m high, often rhizomatous.
Leaves with ligule a membranous ciliate rim < 0.5 mm long, including cilia; blade flat or rolled, to 0.5 mm wide, ribbed, glabrous.
Inflorescence subdigitate, axils pilose with hairs to 0.5 mm long; racemes 1-sided, 1–13 mm long, to 3 mm wide. Spikelets overlapping, to 4 mm long, with 3–8 florets; pedicels to 0.5 mm long, scabrous. Glumes unequal, acute, keeled, keel scabrous; lower c. 1 mm long, upper c. 2 mm long, apex sometimes mucronate. Lemmas 1–2 mm long, upper lemmas successively smaller, obtuse, keeled; callus with 2 clusters of appressed hairs to 0.25 mm long. Paleas slightly shorter or same length as lemma, 2-keeled; keels ciliate with hairs < 0.25 mm long.
Flowering: summer.
Distribution and occurrence: Grows in moist situations, swamps and watercourses.
NSW subdivisions: NWS, CWS, NWP, SWP, NFWP, SFWP
Other Australian states: Qld W.A. S.A. N.T.
A weed causing problems in some irrigation areas.
Text by S. W. L. Jacobs & K. L. McClay
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 4 (1993)
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