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Digitaria  Haller
Taxonomic Serial No.: 203845

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Plantae  
  Taxonomic Rank: Genus  
  Synonym(s): Leptoloma Chase
  
    Acicarpa Raddi
  
    Digitariopsis C.E. Hubb.
  
    Eriachne Phil.
  
    Gramerium Desv.
  
    Syntherisma Walter
  
    Trichachne Nees
  
    Valota Adans.
  
  Common Name(s): crabgrass
 
       
  Taxonomic Status:    
  Current Standing: accepted  
       
  Data Quality Indicators:    
  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: partial   
  Latest Record Review: 2010   
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomPlantae  – plantes, Planta, Vegetal, plants  
    SubkingdomViridiplantae  – green plants  
       InfrakingdomStreptophyta  – land plants  
          SuperdivisionEmbryophyta   
             DivisionTracheophyta  – vascular plants, tracheophytes  
                SubdivisionSpermatophytina  – spermatophytes, seed plants, phanérogames  
                   ClassMagnoliopsida   
                      SuperorderLilianae  – monocots, monocotyledons, monocotylédones  
                         OrderPoales   
                            FamilyPoaceae  – grasses, graminées  
                               GenusDigitaria Haller – crabgrass  
    Direct Children:  
                                  Species Digitaria abyssinica (Hochst. ex A. Rich.) Stapf – African couchgrass 
                                  Species Digitaria aequatoriensis (Hitchc.) Henrard  
                                  Species Digitaria aequiglumis (Hack. & Arechav.) Parodi  
                                  Species Digitaria andicola Giraldo-Cańas  
                                  Species Digitaria arenicola (Swallen) Beetle – green sprangletop, sand crabgrass, sand witchgrass 
                                  Species Digitaria argillacea (Hitchc. & Chase) Fernald – tropical crabgrass 
                                  Species Digitaria argyrograpta (Nees) Stapf  
                                  Species Digitaria atra Luces  
                                  Species Digitaria badia (Scribn. & Merr.) Fernald  
                                  Species Digitaria bakeri (Nash) Fernald  
                                  Species Digitaria balansae Henrard  
                                  Species Digitaria bicornis (Lam.) Roem. & Schult. – Asian crabgrass 
                                  Species Digitaria bonplandii Henrard  
                                  Species Digitaria breedlovei R.W. Pohl & Davidse  
                                  Species Digitaria brownii (Roem. & Schult.) Hughes  
                                  Species Digitaria californica (Benth.) Henrard – Arizona cottontop 
                                  Species Digitaria catamarcensis Rúgolo  
                                  Species Digitaria cayoensis Swallen  
                                  Species Digitaria chacoensis (Parodi) Henrard  
                                  Species Digitaria chaseae Henrard  
                                  Species Digitaria ciliaris (Retz.) Koeler – fingergrass, Henry's crabgrass, kukaepua'a, saulangi, smooth crabgrass, tropical crabgrass, southern crabgrass, southern crab grass 
                                  Species Digitaria clavitricha R.W. Pohl  
                                  Species Digitaria cognata (Schult.) Pilg. – Carolina crabgrass, Carolina cottontop 
                                  Species Digitaria connivens (Trin.) Henrard  
                                  Species Digitaria corynotricha (Hack.) Henrard  
                                  Species Digitaria costaricensis R.W. Pohl  
                                  Species Digitaria cruciata (Nees ex Steudel) A. Camus – crabgrass 
                                  Species Digitaria cuatrecasasii A.S. Vega & Rúgolo  
                                  Species Digitaria curtigluma Hitchc.  
                                  Species Digitaria curvinervis (Hack.) Fernald  
                                  Species Digitaria cuyabensis (Trin.) Parodi  
                                  Species Digitaria debilis (Desf.) Willd.  
                                  Species Digitaria diagonalis (Nees) Stapf  
                                  Species Digitaria didactyla Willd. – crabgrass 
                                  Species Digitaria dioica Killeen & Rúgolo  
                                  Species Digitaria distans (Chase) Fernald  
                                  Species Digitaria divaricatissima (R. Br.) Hughes  
                                  Species Digitaria diversinervis (Nees) Stapf  
                                  Species Digitaria eggersii (Hack.) Henrard – Eggers' crabgrass 
                                  Species Digitaria ekmanii Hitchc.  
                                  Species Digitaria enodis (Hack. ex Arechav.) Parodi  
                                  Species Digitaria eriantha Steud. – pangolagrass 
                                  Species Digitaria eriostachya Mez  
                                  Species Digitaria exilis (Kippist) Stapf – fonio 
                                  Species Digitaria fiebrigii (Hack.) A. Camus  
                                  Species Digitaria filiformis (L.) Koeler – slender crabgrass 
                                  Species Digitaria floridana Hitchc. – Florida crabgrass 
                                  Species Digitaria fragilis (Steud.) Luces  
                                  Species Digitaria fuscescens (J. Presl) Henrard – yellow crabgrass 
                                  Species Digitaria gardneri Henrard  
                                  Species Digitaria gerdesii (Hack.) Parodi  
                                  Species Digitaria gracillima (Scribn.) Fernald – longleaf crabgrass 
                                  Species Digitaria herpocladus Pilg.  
                                  Species Digitaria hitchcockii (Chase) Stuck. – shortleaf crabgrass 
                                  Species Digitaria hololeuca Henrard  
                                  Species Digitaria horizontalis Willd. – Jamaican crabgrass 
                                  Species Digitaria iburua Stapf – black fonio 
                                  Species Digitaria induta Swallen  
                                  Species Digitaria insularis (L.) Fedde  
                                  Species Digitaria ischaemum (Schreb.) Muhl. – small crabgrass, smooth crabgrass, smooth crab grass 
                                  Species Digitaria killeenii A.S. Vega & Rúgolo  
                                  Species Digitaria lanuginosa (Nees) Henrard  
                                  Species Digitaria laxa (Rchb.) Parodi  
                                  Species Digitaria lehmanniana Henrard  
                                  Species Digitaria leiantha (Hack.) Parodi  
                                  Species Digitaria leucites (Trin.) Henrard  
                                  Species Digitaria longiflora (Retz.) Pers. – Indian crabgrass 
                                  Species Digitaria macroglossa Henrard  
                                  Species Digitaria matogrossensis (Pilg.) Henrard  
                                  Species Digitaria milanjiana (Rendle) Stapf – Madagascar crabgrass 
                                  Species Digitaria monodactyla (Nees) Stapf  
                                  Species Digitaria multiflora Swallen  
                                  Species Digitaria myriostachya (Hack.) Henrard  
                                  Species Digitaria natalensis Stent – Natal crabgrass 
                                  Species Digitaria nealleyi Henrard  
                                  Species Digitaria neesiana Henrard  
                                  Species Digitaria nuda Schumach. – naked crabgrass 
                                  Species Digitaria pampinosa Henrard  
                                  Species Digitaria panicea (Sw.) Urb. – millet crabgrass 
                                  Species Digitaria paniculata Soderstr. ex McVaugh  
                                  Species Digitaria paraguayensis Henrard  
                                  Species Digitaria parva Swallen  
                                  Species Digitaria patens (Swallen) Henrard – Texas cottontop 
                                  Species Digitaria pauciflora Hitchc. – twospike crabgrass, Florida pineland crabgrass 
                                  Species Digitaria phaeothrix (Trin.) Parodi  
                                  Species Digitaria pinetorum Hitchc.  
                                  Species Digitaria pittieri (Hack.) Henrard  
                                  Species Digitaria pubiflora (Vasey) Wipff  
                                  Species Digitaria purpurea Swallen  
                                  Species Digitaria radicosa (Presl) Miq. – trailing crabgrass 
                                  Species Digitaria sabulicola Henrard  
                                  Species Digitaria sacchariflora (Nees) Henrard  
                                  Species Digitaria sanguinalis (L.) Scop. – purple crabgrass, hairy crabgrass, hairy crab grass, large crabgrass, crabgrass, redhair crabgrass 
                                  Species Digitaria sejuncta (Hack. ex Pilg.) Henrard  
                                  Species Digitaria seriata Stapf – crabgrass 
                                  Species Digitaria serotina (Walter) Michx. – dwarf crabgrass 
                                  Species Digitaria setigera Roth – East Indian crabgrass 
                                  Species Digitaria setivalva Stent – crabgrass 
                                  Species Digitaria similis Beetle ex Gould – roadside crabgrass 
                                  Species Digitaria simpsonii (Vasey) Fernald – Isle-of-Pines crabgrass 
                                  Species Digitaria singularis Mez  
                                  Species Digitaria swalleniana Henrard – Swallen's crabgrass 
                                  Species Digitaria tenuis (Nees) Henrard  
                                  Species Digitaria ternata (Hochst. ex A. Rich.) Stapf  
                                  Species Digitaria texana Hitchc. – Texas crabgrass 
                                  Species Digitaria tomentosa (Koen. ex Rottl.) Henr. – woolly crabgrass 
                                  Species Digitaria tricholaenoides Stapf  
                                  Species Digitaria X umfolozi D.W. Hall – crabgrass 
                                  Species Digitaria velutina (Forssk.) P. Beauv. – annual couchgrass, velvet fingergrass, velvet crabgrass 
                                  Species Digitaria venezuelae Henrard  
                                  Species Digitaria villiculmis Henrard  
                                  Species Digitaria villosa (Walter) Pers. – shaggy crabgrass 
                                  Species Digitaria violascens Link – violet crabgrass 
       

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  Source: Catalogue of New World Grasses (Poaceae) - 11/2009, database (version 24/11/2009)  
  Acquired: 2009   
  Notes: Maintained by R. J. Soreng et al., at http://www.tropicos.org/Project/CNWG and formerly at http://mobot.mobot.org/W3T/Search/nwgc.html   
  Reference for: Digitaria   
       
  Source: NODC Taxonomic Code, database (version 8.0)  
  Acquired: 1996   
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  Reference for: Digitaria   
       
  Source: Poaceae update, database (version Sept. 2010)  
  Acquired: 2010   
  Notes: Poaceae update for ITIS, in cooperation with NatureServe, and based on the Catalogue of New World Grasses database and other sources   
  Reference for: Digitaria   
       
  Source: The PLANTS Database, database (version 4.0.4)  
  Acquired: 1996   
  Notes: National Plant Data Center, NRCS, USDA. Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA. http://plants.usda.gov   
  Reference for: Digitaria   
       
  Source: The PLANTS Database, database (version 5.1.1)  
  Acquired: 2000   
  Notes: National Plant Data Center, NRCS, USDA. Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA. http://plants.usda.gov   
  Reference for: Digitaria   
       
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