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Details for: PI 299701,
Digitaria milanjiana
(Rendle) Stapf, Mlanjigrass
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Summary Data
Taxonomy:
Digitaria milanjiana
(Rendle) Stapf
Top Name:
Mlanjigrass
Origin:
Collected – Limpopo, South Africa
Maintained:
Plant Genetic Resources Conservation Unit (S9)
Received by NPGS:
31 Aug 1964
PI Assigned:
1964
Form Received:
Seed
Backup Location:
National Laboratory for Genetic Resources Preservation
Inventory Volume:
172
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Seed
200 count
PI 299701 01 SD
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Core Passport Data
Taxonomy:
Digitaria milanjiana
(Rendle) Stapf
Top Name:
Mlanjigrass
Origin:
Collected – Limpopo, South Africa
Maintained:
Plant Genetic Resources Conservation Unit (S9)
Received by NPGS:
31 Aug 1964
PI Assigned:
1964
Form Received:
Seed
Source History
Collected
February 1964.
Limpopo, South Africa
Locality:
Road ditch near the Luvuvhu River, 15 miles east of Louis Trichardt
Elevation:
945m.
Comment:
Collected Feb. to April, 1964
Collector(s):
Oakes, Albert J., USDA-ARS
Accession Names and Identifiers
Mlanjigrass
Type: Local name
279
Type: Collector identifier
AJO-0464
Type: Exploration identifier
Group: PEO-EXPLORATIONS
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Narrative
Stoloniferous perennial with strong rhizomes; leaves to 12in high; heads to 24in high. Stolons.
Digitaria milanjiana
(Rendle) Stapf
Genus:
Digitaria
Family:
Poaceae
(alt. Gramineae)
Subfamily:
Panicoideae
Tribe:
Paniceae
Subtribe:
Anthephorinae
Nomen number:
14039
Place of publication:
D. Prain, Fl. trop. Afr. 9:430. 1919
Verified:
03/22/1993
by ARS Systematic Botanists.
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Basionym
Panicum milanjianum
Rendle
Autonym(s)
Digitaria milanjiana
(Rendle) Stapf subsp.
milanjiana
Digitaria milanjiana
(Rendle) Stapf var.
milanjiana
Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Digitaria endlichii
Mez
Digitaria kilimandscharica
Mez
Digitaria milanjiana
(Rendle) Stapf subsp.
eylesiana
Henrard
Digitaria milanjiana
(Rendle) Stapf var.
abscondita
Henrard
Digitaria mombasana
C. E. Hubb.
Digitaria swynnertonii
Rendle
Common names
Language
Name
Alternate name
note
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Citation
English
digit grass
1
't Mannetje, L. & R. M. Jones, eds.
1992. Forages. In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds.,
Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA)
4:123-124.
English
Milanje finger grass
1
Gibbs-Russell, G. E. et al.
1990. Grasses of southern Africa. Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa vol. 58
English
woolly finger grass
1
Rehm, S.
1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Spanish
milanjiana
2
Rehm, S.
1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
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