Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Digitaria setigera
Poaceae Barnhart
Digitaria setigera Roth ex Roem. & Schult. , legitimate, scientific
Roemer, J.J. & Schultes, J.A. (1817), Systema Vegetabilium Edn. 16, 2: 474 [tax. nov.]
Henrard, J.Th. (15 January 1950), Monograph of the genus Digitaria: 684-686 [secondary reference]
Veldkamp, J.F. (1973), A revision of Digitaria Haller (Gramineae) in Malesia. Notes on Malesian grasses VI. Blumea 21(1): 37-41 [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Digitaria pruriens (Trin.) Buse legitimate
Webster, R.D. (31 January 1984), A revision of the genus Digitaria Haller (Paniceae: Poaceae) in Australia. Brunonia 6(2): 205-206 [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Digitaria pruriens (Trin.) Buse legitimate
Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 62 [secondary reference]
Webster, R.D. (1987), The Australian Paniceae (Poaceae): 65-66 [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Digitaria pruriens (Trin.) Buse legitimate
Du Puy, D.J., Telford, I.R.H. & Edgar, E. (1993), Poaceae. Flora of Australia 50: 497 [secondary reference]
misapplication: Digitaria sanguinalis (L.) Scop. legitimate by Rendle, A.B. in Andrews, C.W. (1900), Monocotyledons. A Monograph of Christmas Island (Indian Ocean): 192 misapplication: Paspalum sanguinale var. commutatum (Schult.) Hook.f. legitimate by Ridley, H.N. (1906), The botany of Christmas Island. Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 45: 241 common name: Hairy Crab-grass [n/a]
  • Comment: Du Puy et al. record a misapplication of "Panicum sanguinale... as sanguniale var. commutatum" by H.N.Ridley, J. Straits Branch Roy. Asiat. Soc. 45: 241 (1906), to this taxon. However, the name recorded by Ridley is in his listing under Paspalum rather than Panicum.
Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 490 [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Panicum norfolkianum Nees ex Endl. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Digitaria timorensis var. norfolkiana (Nees ex Endl.) Henrard legitimate
Williams, D.G. (1994), Vegetation and flora of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands. Atoll Research Bulletin 404: 25 [secondary reference]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2009), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Panicum norfolkianum Nees ex Endl. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Digitaria timorensis var. norfolkiana (Nees ex Endl.) Henrard legitimate isonym: Digitaria setigera Roth isonym misapplication: Digitaria sanguinalis (L.) Scop. legitimate by Rendle, A.B. in Andrews, C.W. (1900), Monocotyledons. A Monograph of Christmas Island (Indian Ocean): 192 misapplication: Paspalum sanguinale var. commutatum (Schult.) Hook.f. legitimate by Ridley, H.N. (1906), The botany of Christmas Island. Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 45: 241
  • APC Dist.: CoI, ChI, NT, Qld (naturalised), NI
Boonsuk, B., Chantaranothai, P. & Hodkinson, T.R. (2016), A taxonomic revision of the genus Digitaria (Panicoideae: Poaceae) in mainland Southeast Asia. Phytotaxa 246(4): 266 [secondary reference]
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