Digitaria bakeri (Nash) Fernald

Syntherisma bakeri Nash, Bull. Torrey Club 25 : 296. 1898
Stems tufted, 1 m. tall or less, simple, erect; leaf-sheaths somewhat compressed, densely hirsute with ascending hairs; blades 2 mm. wide or less, involute when dry, smooth on both surfaces, glabrous beneath, also above except at the very base where they are densely pubescent with long hairs, those on the innovations 2-4 dm. long, on the stems 1-2.5 dm.; panicle longexserted, the axis 4-7 cm. long; racemes usually 3, sometimes 2, commonly somewhat branched at the base, 14—22 cm. long, the rachis 3-angled, the angles not winged but strongly hispidulous; spikelets about 2.25 mm. long, elliptic, usually in 3's, on successively longer pedicels which are 3-angled, the angles strongly hispidulous, the first scale wanting, the second about four fifths as long as the spikelet, acute or acutish, sparsely pilose at the apex, otherwise glabrous, 3-nerved, the third a little shorter than the fruiting scale, 7-nerved, glabrous, the fruiting scale deep chestnut-brown when mature, elliptic, obtusely apiculate, rather faintly striate.
Type locality : Grasmere, Florida. Distribution : Florida.

Digitaria bakeri là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Hòa thảo. Loài này được (Nash) Fernald mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1920.