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Poaceae

Digitaria

Digitaria platycarpha (Trin.) Stapf

First published in Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1906: 78 (1906)

This species is accepted

The native range of this species is Ogasawara-shoto, Kazan-retto. It is a perennial and grows primarily in the subtropical biome.

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Native to:

Kazan-retto, Ogasawara-shoto

Homotypic Synonyms

Panicum platycarphum Trin. in Mém. Acad. Imp. Sci. Saint-Pétersbourg, Sér. 6, Sci. Math., Seconde Pt. Sci. Nat. 3(2): 198 (1834)
Syntherisma platycarpha (Trin.) Honda in Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 38: 123 (1924)

Heterotypic Synonyms

Digitaria matsumurae Henrard in Monogr. Digitaria: 440 (1950)
Digitaria tristachya (Hack.) Hayata in Icon. Pl. Formosan. 6(Suppl.): 95 (1917), nom. illeg.
Panicum tristachyum Hack. in Bull. Herb. Boissier, sér. 2, 4: 525 (1904)

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

Clayton, W.D., Harman, K.T. & Williamson, H. (2006). World Grass Species - Synonymy database The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Iwatsuki, K., Boufford, D.E. & Ohba, H. (eds.) (2020). Flora of Japan IVa: 1-430. Kodansha Ltd., Tokyo.
Koyama, T. (1987). Grasses of Japan and its neighboring regions: an identification manual: 1-570. Kodansha, Tokyo, Japan.

Kew Backbone Distributions

Koyama, T. (1987). Grasses of Japan and its neighboring regions: an identification manual: 1-570. Kodansha, Tokyo, Japan.

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