Details for: PI 299756, Digitaria eriantha Steud., Woolly fingergrass


Summary Data
Taxonomy:
Digitaria eriantha Steud.
Top Name:
Woolly fingergrass
Origin:
Collected – South Africa
Maintained:
Historic Record
Received by NPGS:
31 Aug 1964
PI Assigned:
1964
Form Received:
Seed
Availability
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Core Passport Data
Taxonomy:
Digitaria eriantha Steud.
Top Name:
Woolly fingergrass
Origin:
Collected – South Africa
Maintained:
Historic Record
Received by NPGS:
31 Aug 1964
PI Assigned:
1964
Form Received:
Seed
Source History
Collected

South Africa

Donated
31 August 1964.
Maryland, United States

Donor(s):
Accession Names and Identifiers
Woolly fingergrass
Type: Local name
Col. No. 278; Rietondale Research Station, Pretoria

278
Type: Collector identifier

AJO-0464
Type: Exploration identifier
Group: PEO-EXPLORATIONS
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Narrative
Annual rainfall 20in. Stoloniferous perennial; roots strong, fleshy, below crown; stolons long; leaves to 8in high; heads to 24in high. 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: 09 Jul 1986, from Digitaria pentzii 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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Phenotype Data

CategoryDescriptorDescriptionValueSample SizeStudyInventoryAvailability
STRESSWinter SurvivalResistance to winter damage5 - (1 = Little or no damage, 9 = Complete winter kill) S9.GRASSES.BYRON.96 Not Available