Digitaria violascensLink [family POACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Thais S. do Canto-Dorow, Isotype of Paspalum longiflorumRetz. [family POACEAE ] Verified by Thais S. do Canto-Dorow, Digitaria longiflora(Retz.) Pers. [family POACEAE ] Verified by J. F. Veldkamp, Milium setaceumKoen. ex Steud. [family POACEAE ]
Related name
Digitaria longiflora
Digitaria violascens
Digitaria parodii
Paspalum minutiflorum
Panicum agyrotrichum
Paspalum pubescens
Digitaria kasamaensis
Milium setaceum
Paspalum longifolium
Panicum propinquum
Digitaria corradii
Digitaria malesiae
Panicum pseudo-durva
Paspalum brevifolium
Paspalum longiflorum
Digitaria flexilis
Panicum tenuiflorum
Milium filiforme
Digitaria curvipes
Digitaria propinqua
Digitaria argyrotricha
Common name
cure (JDES) iéte (JDES) ura (JDES) (GUINEA-BISSAU, BALANTA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
funyerítí (FG&G) (GUINEA, KONYAGI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
buáède (JDES) (GUINEA-BISSAU, BIAFADA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
mòbì (Surugue) (UPPER VOLTA, GURMA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
nya-lὲendy FG&G) (SENEGAL, BEDIK), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
epik (Froelich) impwi (pl. ipwi) (Froelich) (TOGO, KONKOMBA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
harkiya RES harkiyan zomo = ’digitaria’ of the rabbit (Taylor) (NIGERIA, HAUSA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
imbilô (JDES) oife (JDES) (GUINEA-BISSAU, PEPEL), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
eran (Ward) (NIGERIA, YORUBA (Ilorin)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
ngoka-gbu (?) (FCD) (SIERRA LEONE, MENDE (Kpa)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
ndiwi (Fisher; FCD) ndiwo (FCD) nyina-voni (FCD) puvε applied generally to small digitarias and other grasses (FCD) (SIERRA LEONE, MENDE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
fundo (GeS; RdoF) fundo bravo (JDES) (GUINEA-BISSAU, CRIOULO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
upadja (JDES) (GUINEA-BISSAU, MANKANYA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
findo (Pirie) projajawo (Fox) (THE GAMBIA, MANDING-MANDINKA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
(Guinea-Bissau) djadje, djadje-maudo (JDES) fónio-tchóli (JDES) (GUINEA-BISSAU, FULA-PULAAR), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
fonio (from Manding); fonio sauvage (i.e., wild fonio)., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
ε-gwθ́rθ́б (FG&G) (GUINEA, BASARI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
e-greb (after K&A) (SENEGAL, BASARI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
djádjeô (JDES) (GUINEA-BISSAU, MANDING-MANDINKA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
fuinε (FCD) (SIERRA LEONE, KONO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
guarcam (JDES) obife (JDES) pebife (JDES) (GUINEA-BISSAU, MANDYAK), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
sáána vòònu ána (CG) (MALI, DOGON), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
fini, fono (GR) (SENEGAL, MANDING-MANDINKA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
Flora
Entry for DIGITARIA longiflora (Retz.) Pers. [family ]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 4, (1995) Author: by T. A. Cope [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Annual or short-lived perennial, either erect or prostrate and creeping, up to 60 cm high; leaves broadly linear to narrowly lanceolate. Inflorescence of 2–4 (typically 2) digitate racemes; racemes 1–10 cm long, the spikelets in threes on a ribbon-like winged rhachis with low rounded midrib. Spikelets narrowly ovate-elliptic, 1.2–1.8 mm long; lower glume a minute hyaline rim; upper glume as long as the spikelet, 5-nerved, with short appressed verrucose hairs between the nerves (sometimes glabrous between the 1st and 2nd lateral nerves); lower lemma 7-nerved, pubescent with verrucose hairs or these appressed and barely visible (sometimes glabrous beside the midrib and between the 2nd and 3rd nerves); fruit ellipsoid, pallid, light brown or light grey.
Range
N1; S2, 3 throughout the Old World tropics; introduced to the New World.
