Poaceae
Digitaria

Digitaria californica (Benth.) Henrard

First published in Blumea 1: 99 (1934)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Colorado to Subtropical America. It is a perennial and grows primarily in the subtropical biome. It is used as animal food and has environmental uses.

Distribution

Native to:

Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Arizona, Aruba, Bolivia, Colombia, Colorado, Mexico Central, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southwest, Netherlands Antilles, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Paraguay, Peru, Texas, Uruguay, Venezuela

Synonyms

Homotypic Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Brako, L. & Zarucchi, J.L. (1993). Catalogue of the Flowering Plants and Gymnosperms of Peru. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 45: i-xl, 1-1286. Missouri Botanical Garden.
  • Clayton, W.D., Harman, K.T. & Williamson, H. (2006). World Grass Species - Synonymy database The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Dávila, P., Mejia-Saulés, M.T., Gómez-Sánchez, N., Valdés-Reyna, J., Ortíz, J.J., Morín, C., Castrejón, J. & Ocampo, A. (2006). Catálogo de las Gramíneas de México: 1-671. CONABIO, México city.
  • Flora of North America Editorial Committee (2003). Flora of North America North of Mexico 25: 1-781. Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford.
  • Giraldo-Cañas, D. (2011). Catálogo de la familia Poaceae en Colombia. Darwiniana 49: 139-247.
  • Lo Medico, J.M. & al. (2017). Phylogeny of Digitaria Sections Trichachne and Trichophorae (Poaceae, Panicoideae, Paniceae). Systematic Botany 42: 37-53.
  • Powell, A.M. & Worthington, R.D. (2018). Flowering plants of Trans-Pecos Texas and adjacent areas: 1-1444. BRIT Press.
  • Renvoize, S.A. (1998). Gramineas de Bolivia: 1-644. The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Sánchez-Ken, J.G. (2012). A synopsis of Digitaria (Paniceae, Panicoideae, Poaceae) in Mexico, including the new species Digitaria michoacensis. Acta Botanica Mexicana 101: 127-149. Instituto de Ecología A.C.
  • Zuloaga, F.O., Morrone, O. , Belgrano, M.J., Marticorena, C. & Marchesi, E. (eds.) (2008). Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Cono Sur. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 107: 1-3348. Missouri Botanical Garden.

Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia

  • Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R. & Celis, M. (eds.). 2015. Catálogo de plantas y líquenes de Colombia. Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. http://catalogoplantasdecolombia.unal.edu.co

Useful Plants of Boyacá Project

  • Crop wild relative Inventory https://www.cwrdiversity.org/checklist/ in The State of the World’s Plants Report–2016. (2016). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew https://stateoftheworldsplants.org/2016/

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • Brako, L. & Zarucchi, J.L. (1993). Catalogue of the Flowering Plants and Gymnosperms of Peru. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 45: i-xl, 1-1286. Missouri Botanical Garden.
  • Dávila, P., Mejia-Saulés, M.T., Gómez-Sánchez, N., Valdés-Reyna, J., Ortíz, J.J., Morín, C., Castrejón, J. & Ocampo, A. (2006). Catálogo de las Gramíneas de México: 1-671. CONABIO, México city.
  • Flora of North America Editorial Committee (2003). Flora of North America North of Mexico 25: 1-781. Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford.
  • Giraldo-Cañas, D. (2011). Catálogo de la familia Poaceae en Colombia. Darwiniana 49: 139-247.
  • Hokche, O., Berry, P.E. & Huber, O. (eds.) (2008). Nuevo Catálogo de la Flora Vascular de Venezuela: 1-859. Fundación Instituto Botánico de Venezuela.
  • Renvoize, S.A. (1998). Gramineas de Bolivia: 1-644. The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Zuloaga, F.O., Morrone, O. , Belgrano, M.J., Marticorena, C. & Marchesi, E. (eds.) (2008). Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Cono Sur. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 107: 1-3348. Missouri Botanical Garden.

Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia

  • Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R., & Celis, M. (eds.). (2020). Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia. v1.1. Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Dataset/Checklist. https://doi.org/10.15472/7avdhn
  • Dempewolf, H., Eastwood, R. J., Guarino, L., Khoury, C. K., Müller, J. V. & Toll, J. (2014). Adapting agriculture to climate change: a global initiative to collect, conserve, and use crop wild relatives. Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, 38, 369-377.
  • Diazgranados et al. (2021). Catalogue of plants of Colombia. Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia project. In prep.
  • Diazgranados, M., Allkin, B., Black N., Cámara-Leret, R., Canteiro C., Carretero J., Eastwood R., Hargreaves S., Hudson A., Milliken W., Nesbitt, M., Ondo, I., Patmore, K., Pironon, S., Turner, R., Ulian, T. (2020). World Checklist of Useful Plant Species. Produced by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity.
  • GBIF.org (2021). GBIF species matching tool. https://www.gbif.org/tools/species-lookup
  • GRIN (2021). Germplasm Resources Information Network from the United States Department of Agriculture. https://www.ars-grin.gov/
  • IUCN (2021). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2021-2. https://www.iucnredlist.org.
  • Willis, K.J. (ed.) (2017). State of the World’s Plants 2017. Report. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Jafri, S.M.H. [1124] Pakistan K003795806 Yes
Wooton, E.O. [s.n.] United States K003434079 Yes
Ryves, T.B. [s.n.] United States K003434059 Yes
Palmer, E.J. [33844a] United States K003434065 Yes
Mulford, A.I. [1004] United States K003434077 Yes
Renvoize, S.A.; Cope, T.A.; Beck, S. [3861] Bolivia K001288016 No
Reeder, J.R.; Reeder, C.G. [8529] United States K003434060 Yes
Renvoize-Cope [3908] Bolivia K001288024 No
Peterson, P.M.; Salariato, D.L.; Soreng, R.J. [19243] Argentina K001609289 Yes
Peterson, P.; Romaschenko, K. [24906] Mexico K001925845 Yes
Renvoize, S.A.; Cope, T.A.; Beck, S. [3908] Bolivia K001288020 No
Kearney, T.H.; Peebles, R.H. [10235] United States K003434068 Yes
Wood, J.R.I. [10761] Bolivia K001288021 No
Pringle, C.G. [s.n.] United States K003434080 Yes
Lindheimer, F. [722] United States K003434070 Yes
Wood, J.R.I.; Serrano, M. [13371] Bolivia K001288025 No
Ryves, T.B. [s.n.] United States K003434063 Yes
Chealley, G. [s.n.] United States K003434073 Yes
Peterson, P.M.; Annable, C. [11868] Bolivia K001288018 No
Greene, E.L. [s.n.] United States K003434076 Yes
Runyon, R. [1542] United States K003434072 Yes
Wright, C. [810] United States K003434069 Yes
Wood, J.R.I. [4859] Colombia K001467805 Yes
Swallen, J.R. [10026] United States K003434058 Yes
Martínez, R. [595] Bolivia K001288023 No
Chavez de Michel, R. [RM2736] Bolivia K001288019 No
Wood, J.R.I. [9647] Bolivia K001288022 No
Wood, J.R.I.; Goyder, D.J. [17104] Bolivia K001288013 No
Lindheimer, F. [722] United States K003434071 Yes
Ryves, T.B. [s.n.] United States K003434064 Yes
Allred [1463] United States K003434061 Yes
Lindheimer, F. [723] United States K003434074 Yes
Renvoize, S.A.; Flores, G.; Peca, C. [5318] Bolivia K001288017 No
Lindheimer, F.J. [723] K003434067 Yes
Clausen, R.T.; Trapido, H. [5181] United States K003434057 Yes
Lindheimer, F.J. [722] K003434066 Yes
Issen, P.A. [34] Bolivia K001288015 No
Hinds [s.n.] Mexico K000643080 Type Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] K003434075 Yes
Gould, F.W. [12025] United States K003434062 Yes
Metcalfe, O.B. [s.n.] United States K003434078 Yes
Bolivia K000326748 Yes
Dutch W Indies K001467802 Yes
Dutch W Indies K001467803 Yes
Colombia K001467804 Yes
Wood, J.R.I. [4859], Colombia K001467805 Yes

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

  • Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia

    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Colombian resources for Plants made Accessible

    • ColPlantA 2021. Published on the Internet at http://colplanta.org
    • https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

  • 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

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • 'The Herbarium Catalogue, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet http://www.kew.org/herbcat [accessed on Day Month Year]'. Please enter the date on which you consulted the system.
    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • IUCN Categories

    • IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2025. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 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 2025. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Universidad Nacional de Colombia

    • ColPlantA database
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia

    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Useful Plants of Boyacá Project

    • ColPlantA database
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0