Digitaria abyssinica

Taxonavigation

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

Digitaria abyssinica (Hochst. ex A.Rich.) Stapf, 1907

Basionym
- Panicum abyssinicum Hochst. ex A.Rich., Tent. Fl. Abyss. 2: 360 (1850).
Homotypic
- Syntherisma abyssinica (Hochst. ex A.Rich.) Newbould, Torreya 24: 8 (1924).
Heterotypic
- Panicum muticum A.Rich., Tent. Fl. Abyss. 2: 362 (1850), nom. illeg.
- Digitaria vestita Fig. & De Not., Mem. Reale Accad. Sci. Torino, ser. 2, 14: 356 (1853).
- Panicum scalarum var. elatius Chiov., Annuario Reale Ist. Bot. Roma 6: 166 (1896).
- Panicum kafuroense K.Schum., Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 24: 334 (1897).
- Digitaria scalarum (Schweinf.) Chiov., Res. Sci. Somalia Ital. 1: 225 (1916).
- Digitaria somalensis Chiov., Res. Sci. Somalia Ital. 1: 224 (1916). .
- Digitaria eichingeri Mez, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 57: 193 (1921).
- Digitaria merkeri Mez, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 57: 193 (1921).
- Digitaria abyssinica var. micrantha Peter, Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 40(1 Anh.): 60 (1930).
- Digitaria lemeeana A.Camus, Bull. Soc. Bot. France 92: 51 (1945).
- Digitaria vestita var. scalarum (Schweinf.) Henrard, Monogr. Digitaria: 670 (1950).
- Digitaria velutina var. glabrescens Gilli, Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien 69: 39 (1966).
- Digitaria hentyi Veldkamp, Blumea 26: 391 (1980).
- Digitaria effusa Veldkamp, Blumea 44: 447 (1999).

Native distribution areas:

Continental: Africa
- Regional: Tropical Africa
  - Botswana, Burundi, Congo, Malawi, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe
- Regional: Western Africa
  - Cameroon, Gabon, Nigeria
- Regional: Southern Africa
  - Cape Provinces, Free State, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Namibia, Northern Provinces, Swaziland
- Regional: Eastern Africa
  - Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Rwanda
- Regional: Mascareñas
  - Comoros, Réunion, Seychelles, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda
Continental: Asia-Tropical
- Regional: Southeastern Asia
  - Malaya, Vietnam
Continental: Asia-Temperate
- Regional: Indian subcontinent
  - Sri Lanka
- Regional: Peninsular Arabia
  - Saudi Arabia, Yemen
Continental: Australasia
- Regional: Papuasia
  - New Guinea
- Introduced into:
  - Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Hawaii, Honduras, Mexico Gulf, Queensland, St.Helena

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USDA, ARS, Germplasm Resources Information Network. Digitaria abyssinica in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service. Accessed: 07-Oct-06. Reference page.