Plants perennial; cespitose. Culmsto 100 cm, erect, not branching
at the lower nodes; nodes 1-2. Sheaths with appressed hairs,
lower sheaths densely hairy, upper sheaths sparingly hairy near the base,
otherwise glabrous; ligules 2-3 mm; blades 10-40 cm long,
to 3 mm wide, usually flat, involute when dry. Panicles with 2-4
spikelike branches on 4-6 cm rachises; primary branches 20-25
cm, axes triquetrous, not winged, with spikelets in unequally pedicellate
groups of 3(-5) on the basal 1/2; secondary branches rarely present,
longer pedicels often adnate to the branch axes basally. Spikelets 2.2-2.5
mm long, 0.8 mm wide, elliptic, acute. Lower glumes absent; upper
glumes 3-veined, margins
and intercostal regions with long, glandular-tipped hairs; lower lemmas
7-veined, margins and the region between the 2 inner marginal veins with
long glandular hairs; upper lemmas light to dark brown at maturity,
striate, apiculate. 2n = unknown.
Digitaria leucocoma is known only from high pinelands near Lake Ella, Lake
County, Florida. It has been treated in the past as a synonym of D. filiformis
var. villosa.