Digitaria setigera Roth

 
  • 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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