Details for: PI 299606, Digitaria eriantha Steud., 458


Summary Data
Taxonomy:
Digitaria eriantha Steud.
Top Name:
458
Origin:
Collected – KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Received by NPGS:
31 Aug 1964
PI Assigned:
1964
Form Received:
Seed
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Core Passport Data
Taxonomy:
Digitaria eriantha Steud.
Top Name:
458
Origin:
Collected – KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Received by NPGS:
31 Aug 1964
PI Assigned:
1964
Form Received:
Seed
Source History
Collected
February 1964.
KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Locality: South bank of Pongola River, Highway N-14, 10 miles north of Mkuze
Elevation: 152m.
Environment description: Distrubed dry sand
Comment: Collected Feb. to April, 1964
Collector(s):
Accession Names and Identifiers
458
Type: Collector identifier

AJO-0464
Type: Exploration identifier
Group: PEO-EXPLORATIONS
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Narrative
Annual rainfall 24in. Stoloniferous perennial; stolons few, long; stems fine, hirsute, light green. Stolons.
Digitaria eriantha Steud.
Genus:
Digitaria
Family:
Poaceae (alt. Gramineae)
Subfamily:
Panicoideae
Tribe:
Paniceae
Subtribe:
Anthephorinae
Nomen number:

14013
Place of publication:

Flora 12:468. 1829
Verified:
11/21/2017 by ARS Systematic Botanists.
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Autonym(s)
Digitaria eriantha Steud. subsp. eriantha
Digitaria eriantha Steud. var. eriantha

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Syntherisma erianthum (Steud.) Newbold

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Common names
LanguageNameAlternate namenoteseqCitation
Englishcommon finger grass  1Gibbs-Russell, G. E. et al. 1990. Grasses of southern Africa. Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa vol. 58
Englishdigit grass  1Veldkamp, J. F. 1997. pers. comm. Note: re. common names
Englishpangola grass  1Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
Englishwoolly finger grass  1Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia Note: introduced
Frenchdigitaria  2Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
GermanPangolagras  2Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Spanishpangola  2Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Spanishpasto pangola  2Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Annotations
  • Nomenclature Name Change: 12 Mar 1987, from Digitaria decumbens Stent to Digitaria eriantha Steud. subsp. pentzii (Stent) Kok
  • Taxonomic Re-Identification: 14 Nov 1996, from Digitaria eriantha Steud. subsp. pentzii (Stent) Kok to Digitaria eriantha Steud.
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