Digitaria

For the genus of bivalves, see Astartidae.

Digitaria
Digitaria sanguinalis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Panicoideae
Supertribe: Panicodae
Tribe: Paniceae
Subtribe: Anthephorinae
Genus: Digitaria
Haller 1768,[1] conserved name not Heist. ex Fabr. 1759 nor Scop. 1772 nor Adans. 1763[2]
Synonyms[3][4]
  • Digitaria Heist. ex Fabr. 1759, rejected name not Haller 1768
  • Valota Adans. 1763, rejected name not Dumort. 1829
  • Sanguinella Gleichen
  • Syntherisma Walter
  • Acicarpa Raddi
  • Trichachne Nees
  • Gramerium Desv.
  • Elytroblepharum (Steud.) Schltdl.
  • Eriachne Phil. 1870, illegitimate homonym not R.Br. 1810
  • Sanguinaria Bubani
  • Leptoloma Chase
  • Digitariopsis C.E.Hubb.
  • Digitariella De Winter
  • Panicum sect. Digitaria (Haller) Trin.
  • Panicum ser. Digitaria (Haller) Benth.
  • Panicum ser. Digitarieae (Haller) Benth.
  • Panicum subg. Digitaria (Haller) A. Gray
  • Panicum subg. Digitaria (Haller) Hack.
  • Paspalum sect. Digitaria (Haller) Nees
  • Paspalum subg. Digitaria (Haller) A. Camus

Digitaria is a genus of plants in the grass family native to tropical and warm temperate regions but can occur in tropical, subtropical, and cooler temperate regions as well. Common names include crabgrass, finger-grass, and fonio. They are slender monocotyledonous annual and perennial lawn, pasture, and forage plants; some are often considered lawn pests. Digitus is the Latin word for "finger", and they are distinguished by the long, finger-like inflorescences they produce.

Large crabgrass seedhead 2 - 9 spikelets
Large crabgrass seedhead raceme
  1. ^ "Genus: Digitaria Haller". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. 2007-10-05. Archived from the original on 2010-05-28. Retrieved 2010-11-06.
  2. ^ search for Digitaria
  3. ^ Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  4. ^ Tropicos, Digitaria Haller