Details for: PI 299882, Digitaria eriantha Steud., Large fingergrass


Summary Data
Taxonomy:
Digitaria eriantha Steud.
Top Name:
Large fingergrass
Origin:
Collected – Limpopo, South Africa
Received by NPGS:
31 Aug 1964
PI Assigned:
1964
Form Received:
Seed
Availability
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Seed200 countPI 299882 01 SD
 
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Core Passport Data
Taxonomy:
Digitaria eriantha Steud.
Top Name:
Large fingergrass
Origin:
Collected – Limpopo, South Africa
Received by NPGS:
31 Aug 1964
PI Assigned:
1964
Form Received:
Seed
Source History
Collected
February 1964.
Limpopo, South Africa
Locality: One mile north of Highway N-4, Malelane, Crocodile River valley
Environment description: Hard red clay loam grassland
Comment: Collected Feb. to April, 1964
Collector(s):
Accession Names and Identifiers
Large fingergrass
Type: Local name

331
Type: Collector identifier

AJO-0464
Type: Exploration identifier
Group: PEO-EXPLORATIONS
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Narrative
Annual rainfall 20in. Stoloniferous perennial; leaves to 10in high. Seeds.
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 valida 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
GROWTHFoliage HeightFoliage height in decimeters5 S9.GRASSESPI 299882 01 SD
GROWTHPlant HeightTotal plant height in decimeters13 S9.GRASSESPI 299882 01 SD
GROWTHPlant WidthPlant spread in decimeters9 S9.GRASSESPI 299882 01 SD
MORPHOLOGYFoliage DistributionDistribution of leaves on plant3 - Well distributed S9.GRASSESPI 299882 01 SD
MORPHOLOGYLeaf LengthLeaf length measured in centimeters43 S9.GRASSESPI 299882 01 SD
MORPHOLOGYLeaf WidthLeaf width measured in millimeters10 S9.GRASSESPI 299882 01 SD
MORPHOLOGYStem SizeStem size by code5 - Medium S9.GRASSESPI 299882 01 SD
MORPHOLOGYTillersAbundance of tillers produced5 - Medium S9.GRASSESPI 299882 01 SD
PRODUCTIONFoliage AmountAbundance of foliage produced1 - Abundant S9.GRASSESPI 299882 01 SD
PRODUCTIONSeed ProductionRelative seed production5 - Medium S9.GRASSESPI 299882 01 SD