Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

The Australian Plant Name Index (APNI) is a tool for the botanical community that deals with plant names and their usage in the scientific literature, whether as a current name or synonym. APNI does not recommend any particular taxonomy or nomenclature. For a listing of currently accepted scientific names for the Australian vascular flora, please use the Australian Plant Census (APC) link above.

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Showing Digitaria

Poaceae Barnhart

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Lilianae(superordo)
Poales(ordo)
Poaceae(fam.)
Digitaria(gen.)

Digitaria Haller

, nom. cons.

, scientific

Haller, A. von (1768), Historia Stirpium Indigenarum Helvetiae Inchoata

:

244

[tax. nov.]

Type: (not designated).

Comment: nom. cons. non Fabricius (1759) (nom. rej.) (ref. I.C.B.N. (1988) No. 166a.

Palisot de Beauvois, A.M.F.J. (1812), Essai d'une Nouvelle Agrostographie

:

51, 160, 169

[secondary reference]

Trinius, C.B. von (1826), De Graminibus Paniceis

:

48

[basionym]

basionym of:

Panicum sect. Digitaria (Haller) Trin.

legitimate

Nees von Esenbeck, C.G.D. in Martius, C.F.P. von (1829), Agrostologia Brasiliensis seu Descriptio Graminum.

Flora Brasiliensis seu Enumeratio Plantarum

:

20

[basionym]

basionym of:

Paspalum sect. Digitaria (Haller) Nees

legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants

:

130

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (December 1889), Second Systematic Census of Australian Plants

:

218

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

legitimate

Hooker, J.D. (April 1896), Gramineae.

The Flora of British India

:

10

[basionym]

basionym of:

Paspalum sect. Digitaria (Haller) Hook.f.

nom. illeg.

Hackel, E. (1901), Oesterreichische Botanische Zeitschrift 51

:

290

[basionym]

basionym of:

Panicum subg. Digitaria (Haller) Hack.

legitimate

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1

:

68-69

[secondary reference]

Etymology: "From Latin digitus, a finger; alluding to the digitate inflorescence"

Henrard, J.Th. (15 January 1950), Monograph of the genus Digitaria

:

1-999

[secondary reference]

Gardner, C.A. (1952), Gramineae.

Flora of Western Australia

:

224-225

[secondary reference]

Bor, N.L. (1955), The Genus Digitaria Heist. in India and Burma.

Webbia; raccolta di scritti botanici

:

301-367

[secondary reference]

Vickery, J.W. (1961), Gramineae.

Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium, Flora Series

:

83

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Digitaria Heist. ex Fabr.

nom. rej.

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains

:

520

[secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales

:

42

[secondary reference]

Lazarides, M. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Gramineae (Poaceae).

Flora of Central Australia

:

472-473

[secondary reference]

Webster, R.D. (31 January 1984), A revision of the genus Digitaria Haller (Paniceae: Poaceae) in Australia.

:

145-146

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Panicum sect. Digitaria (Haller) Trin.

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Panicum ser. Digitaria Benth.

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Paspalum sect. Digitaria (Haller) Hook.f.

nom. illeg.

nomenclatural synonym:

Panicum subg. Digitaria (Haller) Hack.

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Paspalum subg. Digitaria (Haller) A.Camus

legitimate

Bennett, E.M. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Poaceae.

Flora of the Perth Region

:

954-955

[secondary reference]

Webster, R.D. (1987), The Australian Paniceae (Poaceae)

:

35-70

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Paspalum subg. Digitaria (Haller) A.Camus

legitimate

Greuter, W., Burdet, H.M., Chaloner, W.G., Demoulin, V., Grolle, R., Hawkesworth, D.L., Nicolson, D.H., Silva, P.C., Stafleu, F.A., Voss, E.G. & McNeill, J. (ed.) (1988), International Code of Botanical Nomenclature, Berlin, 1988.

Regnum Vegetabile

:

162

[secondary reference]

Lectotype: Digitaria sanguinalis (L.) Scop. (typ. cons )

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Poaceae.

Flora of South-eastern Queensland

:

229-230

[secondary reference]

Brummitt, R.K. (1992), Vascular Plant Families and Genera

:

435

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Trichachne Nees

legitimate

Brummitt, R.K. (1992), Vascular Plant Families and Genera

:

418

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Syntherisma Walter

legitimate

Brummitt, R.K. (1992), Vascular Plant Families and Genera

:

242

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Leptoloma Chase

legitimate

Macfarlane, T.D. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Digitaria.

Flora of the Kimberley Region

:

1147-1148

[secondary reference]

Du Puy, D.J., Telford, I.R.H. & Edgar, E. (1993), Poaceae.

Flora of Australia

:

496-497

[secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Wall, C.A. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Poaceae p.p.

Flora of New South Wales

:

455-456

[secondary reference]

common name:

Finger Grasses

[n/a]

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island.

Flora of Australia

:

489-490

[secondary reference]

Morris, D.I. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994), Poaceae.

The Student's Flora of Tasmania

:

345-346

[secondary reference]

Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Poaceae.

Flora of Victoria

:

606

[secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Flora of the South West 1

:

412

[secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L., Whalley, R.D.B. & Wheeler, D.J.B. (2008), Grasses of New South Wales Edn. 4

:

93 (fig.), 94 (fig.), 95 (fig.), 211 (fig.) - 213

[secondary reference]

common name:

Finger Grasses

[n/a]

Etymology: "from the Latin 'digitus' meaning 'finger'."

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3

:

273

[secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2009), Australian Plant Census

:

-

APC

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Panicum sect. Digitaria (Haller) Trin.

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Paspalus sect. Digitariae Nees

orth. var.

nomenclatural synonym:

Paspalum sect. Digitaria (Haller) Nees

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Panicum subg. Digitaria (Heist. ex Fabr.) A.Gray

nom. rej.

nomenclatural synonym:

Panicum ser. Digitarieae Benth.

orth. var.

nomenclatural synonym:

Panicum ser. Digitaria Benth.

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Paspalum sect. Digitaria (Haller) Hook.f.

nom. illeg.

nomenclatural synonym:

Panicum subg. Digitaria (Haller) Hack.

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Paspalum subg. Digitaria (Haller) A.Camus

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Digitaria Heist. ex Fabr.

nom. rej.

taxonomic synonym:

Syntherisma Walter

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Acicarpa Raddi

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Trichachne Nees

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Panicum sect. Trichachne (Nees) Steud.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Panicum ser. Trichachneae Benth.

orth. var.

taxonomic synonym:

Panicum ser. Trichachne (Nees) Benth.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Digitaria sect. Trichachne Stapf

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Leptoloma Chase

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Digitaria subsect. Trichachne Stapf

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Digitaria subg. Leptoloma (Chase) Henrard

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Digitaria sect. Trichachne (Nees) Henrard

nom. illeg.

APC Comment: Panicum subg. Digitaria (Heist. ex Fabr.) A.Gray is a rejected name because Gray referred indirectly to the basionym Digitaria Heist. ex Fabr. (1759) but also included the type of Digitaria Haller (1768), nom. cons. (ICBN Art. 14.7 (2006)). Panicum subg. Digitaria (Haller) Hack. was validly published, although reference to the basionym is lacking (ICBN Art. 33.3 (2006)).
APC Dist.: WA (native and naturalised), CoI, ChI, AR, NT (native and naturalised), SA (native and naturalised), Qld (native and naturalised), CSI, NSW (native and naturalised), LHI (naturalised), NI (native and naturalised), ACT (native and naturalised), Vic (native and naturalised), Tas (naturalised)

Morrone, O., Aagesen, L., Scataglini, M.A., Salariato, D.L., Denham, S.S., Chemisquy, M.A., Sede, S.M., Giussani, L.M., Kellog, E.A. & Zuloaga, F.O. (2012), Phylogeny of the Paniceae (Poaceae: Panicoideae): integrating plastid DNA sequences and morphology into a new classification.

:

349

[secondary reference]