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Details for: PI 189325,
Digitaria exilis
(Kippist) Stapf, 'Akang'
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Summary Data
Taxonomy:
Digitaria exilis
(Kippist) Stapf
Cultivar:
'Akang'
Origin:
Collected – Nigeria
Maintained:
Historic Record
Received by NPGS:
24 May 1950
PI Assigned:
1950
Inventory Volume:
158
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Core Passport Data
Taxonomy:
Digitaria exilis
(Kippist) Stapf
Cultivar:
'Akang'
Origin:
Collected – Nigeria
Maintained:
Historic Record
Received by NPGS:
24 May 1950
PI Assigned:
1950
Source History
Collected
Nigeria
Collector(s):
Baldwin, J.T., USDA-ARS, Bureau of Plant Industry
Accession Names and Identifiers
'Akang'
Type: Cultivar name
No. 7
Narrative
Digitaria exilis
(Kippist) Stapf
Genus:
Digitaria
Family:
Poaceae
(alt. Gramineae)
Subfamily:
Panicoideae
Tribe:
Paniceae
Subtribe:
Anthephorinae
Nomen number:
14016
Place of publication:
Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1915:385. 1915
Protologue link:
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11492913
Verified:
05/29/1995
by ARS Systematic Botanists.
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Basionym
Paspalum exile
Kippist
Homotypic Synonym(s)
Syntherisma exile
(Kippist) Newbold
Common names
Language
Name
Alternate name
note
seq
Citation
English
fonio millet
1
Rehm, S.
1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
English
hungry-rice
1
Rehm, S.
1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
English
white fonio
1
Dansi, A. et al.
2010. Diversity, conservation and related wild species of Fonio millet (
Digitaria
spp.) in the northwest of Benin. Genet. Resources Crop Evol. 57:827-839.
DOI:
10.1007/s10722-009-9522-3
.
English (Nigeria)
acha
from Hausa language
2
National Research Council.
1996. 3. Fonio (Acha). Lost crops of Africa. 1:59-75.
French
fonio
2
National Research Council.
1996. 3. Fonio (Acha). Lost crops of Africa. 1:59-75.
German
Fonio
2
Rehm, S.
1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Spanish
digitaria
2
Rehm, S.
1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Swedish
fundi-hirs
2
Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson.
2012.
Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)
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