- Family : POACEAE
(Grass Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : GHAS FAMILY (घास फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Poaceae
- Synonym(s) : Cynodon setiger (Roth) Hassk.; Panicum fimbriatum var. setigerum (Roth) E.Fourn.; Panicum setigerum (Roth) Boerl.
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Digitaria setigera Roth
- Common name : East Indian Crab Grass, Mau'u-kukaepua'a, Itchy crabgrass
- Habit : Herb
- Habitat : Degraded deciduous forests and grasslands, also in wasteland
- Comments / notes : Occasional
- Flower, Fruit : May-November
- Collector(s) Name : Cecil J. Saldanha
- Collection Date : 10/11/1979
- Collection Nos : KFP 10168
- Collection Locality : Good Shepherd convent playground, Bangalore
- Distribution :
- Karnataka : Bengaluru district
- Kerala : All districts of Kerala
- Maharashtra : Akola district, Mumbai-City district, Mumbai Suburban district, Dhule district, Pune district, Thane district
- Odisha : Odisha
- Madhya Pradesh : Hoshangabad district
- Uttarakhand : Uttarakhand
- Sikkim : Sikkim
- Himachal Pradesh : Himachal Pradesh
- Arunachal Pradesh : Kameng
- Meghalaya : Meghalaya
- Assam : Assam
- Nagaland : Nagaland
- Jammu and Kashmir : Jammu and Kashmir
- Mizoram : Mizoram
- Andaman and Nicobar Islands : Andaman Islands
- Manipur : Manipur
- Tripura : Tripura
- Native : Aldabra, Andaman Islands, Australia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Borneo, Cambodia, Caroline Islands, China, Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Cook Islands, Easter Islands, Fiji, Gilbert Islands, Hainan, India, Jawa, Kazan-retto, Korea, Laos, Lesser Sunda
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Aldabra, Andaman Islands, Australia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Borneo, Cambodia, Caroline Islands, China, Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Cook Islands, Easter Islands, Fiji, Gilbert Islands, Hainan, India, Jawa, Kazan-retto, Korea, Laos, Lesser Sunda Islands, Madagascar, Malaya, Marcus Island, Marianas, Marquesas, Marshall Islands, Mauritius, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nauru, Nepal, New Caledonia, New Guinea, Niue, Norfolk Islands, Ogasawara-shoto, Pakistan, Philippines, Phoenix Islands, Pitcairn Islands, Réunion, Samoa, Seychelles, Society Islands, Solomon Islands, South China Sea, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Tokelau-Manihiki, Tonga, Tuamotu, Tubuai Islands, Vanuatu, Vietnam, Wake Island, Wallis-Futuna Islands
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature :
- H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1996- Flora of Orissa Vol. 4
- 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.: 285
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Digitaria setigera. Downloaded on 13 December 2024.
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