Digitaria didactyla

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Poales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Monocots Cladus: Commelinids Ordo: Poales

Digitaria didactyla Willd. Enum. pl. 1:91. (1809)

Digitaria didactyla Spreng. = Cynodon tenellus R.Br., Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holland.: 187 (1810).

Homotypic
- Panicum didactylum (Willd.) Kunth, Révis. Gramin. 1: 33 (1829).
- Panicum commutatum var. didactylum (Willd.) Nees, Fl. Afr. Austral. Ill.: 26 (1841).
- Paspalum sanguinale var. didactylum (Willd.) A.Camus, Notul. Syst. (Paris) 2: 223 (1912).
Heterotypic
- Panicum gracile Nees ex Spreng., Syst. Veg. 4(2): 33 (1827), nom. nud.
- Panicum subtile R.Br. ex Nees, Flora 11: 300 (1828), nom. nud.
- Panicum bicorne Sieber ex Steud., Syn. Pl. Glumac. 1: 41 (1853), nom. illeg.
- Panicum sanguinale var. bicorne Drake, Fl. Polynésie Franç.: 250 (1893).
- Panicum sanguinale var. brevispicatum Maiden, Agric. Gaz. New South Wales 21: 789 (1910)
- Digitaria caespitosa B.Boivin ex A.Camus, Bull. Soc. Bot. France 73: 914 (1926 publ. 1927), nom. illeg.
- Digitaria camusiana Henrard, Meded. Rijks-Herb. 61: 17 (1930)
- Digitaria swazilandensis Stent, Bothalia 3: 150 (1930)
- Digitaria truncata Henrard & A.Camus, Blumea 1: 111 (1934)
- Digitaria peninsulae Ohwi, Bull. Tokyo Sci. Mus. .18: 7 (1947)
- Digitaria didactyla var. decalvata Henrard, Monogr. Digitaria.: 182 (1950)
- Digitaria didactyla var. peninsulae (Ohwi) Henrard, Monogr. Digitaria.: 991 (1950)

Native distribution areas:

Continental: Asia-Temperate
- Regional: Southern Asia
  - Aldabra
Continental: Africa
- Regional: Western Indian Ocean
  - Madagascar
- Regional: Eastern Africa
  - Malawi, Mozambique
- Regional: Mascareñas
  - Mauritius, Rodrigues, Réunion, Seychelles
- Introduced into:
  - Cook Is., Fiji, Florida, India, Jawa, KwaZulu-Natal, Malaya, New Guinea, New South Wales, New Zealand North, Northern Provinces, Puerto Rico, Queensland, Sri Lanka, Sumatera, Suriname, Swaziland, Tonga, Vietnam, Western Australia

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Clayton, W.D., Harman, K.T. & Williamson, H. (2006). World Grass Species - Synonymy database The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Govaerts, R. et al. 2022. Digitaria didactyla in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2022 October 06. Reference page.
Hassler, M. 2022. Digitaria didactyla. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2022. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: 2022 October 06. Reference page.
Tropicos.org 2022. Digitaria didactyla. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 06 October 2022.
International Plant Names Index. 2022. Digitaria didactyla. Published online. Accessed: October 06 2022.

Afrikaans: Swaziland-vingergras
English: Blue Couch

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