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Taxon: Digitaria diagonalis (Nees) Stapf

Genus:

Digitaria

Family:

Poaceae (alt.Gramineae)

Subfamily:

Panicoideae

Tribe:

Paniceae

Subtribe:

Anthephorinae

Nomen number:

14007

Place of publication:

W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, Fl. cap. 7:381. 1898

Link to protologue:

Name Verified on:

17-Dec-1998 by ARS Systematic Botanists.

Accessions:

0 (0 active, 0 available) in National Plant Germplasm System

Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations:

(≡ homotypic synonym, = heterotypic synonym, - autonym, I invalid designation)

(-) Digitaria diagonalis var. diagonalis (Nees) Stapf
(=) Digitaria diagonalis var. hirsuta (De Wild. & T. Durand) Troupin
(=) Digitaria uniglumis (Hochst. ex A. Rich.) Stapf
(=) Digitaria uniglumis var. major Stapf
(=) Digitaria uniglumis var. uniglumis (Hochst. ex A. Rich.) Stapf
Basionym: Panicum diagonale Nees
(=) Panicum uniglume Hochst. ex A. Rich.
(=) Syntherisma uniglume (Hochst. ex A. Rich.) Newbold

Common names:

brown-seed finger grass (Source: Grass SAfr) - English

Distributional Range:

Native

Africa

NORTHEAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Ethiopia, Sudan
EAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Kenya, Uganda
WEST-CENTRAL TROPICAL AFRICA: Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo
WEST TROPICAL AFRICA: Nigeria, Senegal
SOUTH TROPICAL AFRICA: Angola, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe
SOUTHERN AFRICA: Eswatini, Namibia, South Africa [Cape Province, KwaZulu-Natal, Free State, Transvaal]

References:

Arnold, T. H. & B. C. De Wet, eds. 1993. Plants of southern Africa: names and distribution. Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa no. 62
Exell, A. W. et al., eds. 1960-. Flora zambesiaca.
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource). URL: http://ecocrop.fao.org/ecocrop/srv/en/cropListDetails?code=&relation=beginsWith&name=Digitaria+diagonalis&quantity=1 target='_blank'
Gibbs-Russell, G. E. et al. 1990. Grasses of southern Africa. Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa vol. 58
Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952-. Flora of tropical East Africa.
Zon, A. P. M. van der. 1992. Graminées du Cameroun

Check other web resources for Digitaria diagonalis (Nees) Stapf :

SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
On-line Flora of Zimbabwe:
World Grass Species-Descriptions: Morphological species description from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
PubAg: USDA's National Agricultural Library database of full-text journal articles and citations on the agricultural sciences.

Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2024. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN-Taxonomy).
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL: http://gringlobal.iita.org/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=14007. Accessed 1 July 2024.