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Poaceae

Digitaria

Digitaria mezii Kaneh.

First published in Fl. Micron.: 401 (1933)

This species is accepted

The native range of this species is New Guinea, Marianas. It is an annual or perennial and grows primarily in the wet tropical biome.

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Native to:

Marianas, New Guinea

Homotypic Synonyms

Digitaria latronum Henrard in Blumea 1: 97 (1934)
Syntherisma mezii (Kaneh.) Hosok. in Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc. Formosa 24: 198 (1934)

Heterotypic Synonyms

Digitaria marianensis Mez in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 59: 1 (1924), nom. illeg.

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

Clayton, W.D. & Snow, N. (2010). A key to Pacific Grasses: 1-107. Kew Publishing, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Clayton, W.D., Harman, K.T. & Williamson, H. (2006). World Grass Species - Synonymy database The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Kew Backbone Distributions

Clayton, W.D. & Snow, N. (2010). A key to Pacific Grasses: 1-107. Kew Publishing, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

IPNI - The International Plant Names Index

GrassBase - The Online World Grass Flora
- Clayton, W.D., Vorontsova, M.S., Harman, K.T. and Williamson, H. (2006 onwards). GrassBase - The Online World Grass Flora.
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0
Kew Backbone Distributions
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2022 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2022 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0