Digitaria thouarsiana (Flüggé) A.Camus
First published in Bull. Soc. Bot. France 75: 914 (1928 publ. 1929)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Cameroon to Kenya and S. Africa, Madagascar. It is an annual and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.
Distribution
Native to:
Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Free State, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Northern Provinces, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Zaïre, Zimbabwe
Synonyms
Homotypic Synonyms
- Paspalum thouarsianum Flüggé in Gram. Monogr., Paspalum: 148 (1810)
Heterotypic Synonyms
- Digitaria melanochila Stapf in D.Oliver & auct. suc. (eds.), Fl. Trop. Afr. 9: 453 (1919)
- Digitaria scaettae Robyns in Mém. Inst. Roy. Colon. Belge, Sect. Sci. Nat. (4to) 1(1): 31 (1931)
- Digitaria scaettae var. glabra Robyns & Van der Veken in Bull. Jard. Bot. État Bruxelles 22: 148 (1952)
- Digitaria tricostulata (Hack.) Henrard in Blumea 1: 101 (1934)
- Panicum puberulum var. tricostulatum Hack. in Oesterr. Bot. Z. 51: 332 (1901)
Publications
POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:
- Bosser, J. (1969). Gramiées des pasturages et des cultures a Madagascar: 1-440. ORSTOM, Paris.
- Clayton, W.D. & Renvoize, S.A. (1982). Gramineae. Flora of Tropical East Africa 3: 451-898.
- Clayton, W.D. (1989). Flora Zambesiaca 10(3): 1-231. 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.
- Germishuizen, G. & Meyer, N.L. (eds.) (2003). Plants of Southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14.: i-vi, 1-1231. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
- Ndabaneze, P. (1989). Catalogue des Graminées du Burundi. Lejeunia; Revue de Botanique, n.s., 132: 1-127.
- Troupin, G. (ed.) (1988). Flora du Rwanda 4: I-X, 1-651. Musee Royal de l'Afrique Centrale.
Kew Backbone Distributions
- Clayton, W.D. & Renvoize, S.A. (1982). Gramineae. Flora of Tropical East Africa 3: 451-898.
- Clayton, W.D. (1989). Flora Zambesiaca 10(3): 1-231. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
- Germishuizen, G. & Meyer, N.L. (eds.) (2003). Plants of Southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14.: i-vi, 1-1231. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
- Ndabaneze, P. (1989). Catalogue des Graminées du Burundi. Lejeunia; Revue de Botanique, n.s., 132: 1-127.
- Troupin, G. (ed.) (1988). Flora du Rwanda 4: I-X, 1-651. Musee Royal de l'Afrique Centrale.
Flora of Tropical East Africa
- A. Camus in Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. 75: 914 (1928).
Other Data
Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:
Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status | Has image? |
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Oct 1, 1972 | Powell, H. [18] | K000281492 | Yes | ||
Oct 1, 1972 | Dümmer, R. [1068], Uganda | K000281491 | syntype | Yes | |
Lebrun, J. [7915], Zaire | K000281458 | paratype | Yes |
Sources
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Flora Zambesiaca
- Flora Zambesiaca
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0
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Flora of Tropical East Africa
- Flora of Tropical East Africa
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0
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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
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Herbarium Catalogue Specimens
- Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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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
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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