Digitaria ciliaris (Retz.) Koeler

 
  • Family : POACEAE
    (Grass Family)
  • Family (Hindi name) : GHAS FAMILY (घास फैमिली)
  • Family (as per The APG System III) : Poaceae
  • Basionym : Panicum ciliare Retz.
  • Synonym(s) : Digitaria marginata Link
  • Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Digitaria ciliaris (Retz.) Koeler
  • Common name : Henry's crabgrass
  • Habit : Herb
  • Habitat : Tropical moist deciduous forests, grasslands and waste places
  • Comments / notes : Common throughout in bushes and hedges
  • Flower, Fruit : July-February
  • Collector(s) Name : Cecil J. Saldanha, T.P. Ramamoorthy
  • Collection Date : 26-08-1961, 09-07-1970
  • Collection Nos : CS 6699, HFP 348
  • Collection Locality : Waghai, Gujarat; Kenchankumri state forest, Shiradi ghat, Hassan district
  • Distribution :
    • Karnataka : Kolar district
    • Kerala : All districts of Kerala
    • Maharashtra : All districts of Maharashtra
    • Tamil Nadu : Tamil Nadu
    • Madhya Pradesh : Hoshangabad district
    • Gujarat : Gujarat
    • Uttarakhand : Uttarakhand
    • Sikkim : Sikkim
    • Himachal Pradesh : Himachal Pradesh
    • Arunachal Pradesh : Lohit, Tirap
    • Meghalaya : Meghalaya
    • Assam : Assam
    • Nagaland : Nagaland
    • Jammu and Kashmir : Jammu and Kashmir
    • Mizoram : Mizoram
    • Manipur : Manipur
    • Tripura : Tripura
    • Lakshadweep : Lakshadweep
  • Native : Aldabra, Algeria, Angola, Ascension, Azores, Bangladesh, Benin, Bhutan, Botswana, Burkina, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canary Islands, Cape Provinces, Cape Verde, Central African Repu, Chad, China, Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Free State, Gambia, Gh
  • Exotic/Native : Native
  • World Distribution : Aldabra, Algeria, Angola, Ascension, Azores, Bangladesh, Benin, Bhutan, Botswana, Burkina, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canary Islands, Cape Provinces, Cape Verde, Central African Repu, Chad, China, Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Free State, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf States, Hainan, India, Inner Mongolia, Ivory Coast, Japan, Kazan-retto, Kenya, Korea, Kuril Islands, Kuwait, KwaZulu-Natal, Lakshadweep Islands, Laos, Lesser Sunda Islands, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malaya, Mali, Manchuria, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, Niger, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Ogasawara-shoto, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Rodrigues, Réunion, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Sinai, Socotra, Somalia, South China Sea, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Tibet, Transcaucasus, Turkey, Uganda, Vietnam, Xinjiang, Yemen, Zaïre, Zimbabwe
  • Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
  • Literature :
    • J.L.Ellis, 1990- Flora of Nallamalais Vol. 2
    • H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1996- Flora of Orissa Vol. 4
    • R. S. Rao et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District
    • H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa
    • B. D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan & N. P. Singh 1996 - Flora of Maharashtra state - Monocotyledons
    • Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (2). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983
    • Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
    • H J, Chowdhery, et al. Materials for Flora of Arunachal Pradesh. Volume 3, Botanical Survey of India, 2009. Pg.: 284
  • Read more :
  • Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Digitaria ciliaris. Downloaded on 26 July 2024.

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