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Identification
Digitaria horizontalis Willd. [family POACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by C.E. Hubbard, 1931 Digitaria reflexa Schumach. [family POACEAE ] Verified by Not on Sheet, Digitaria sanguinalis Scop. [family POACEAE ] Verified by C.C. Mez, Digitaria nuda Schumach. [family POACEAE ] Verified by Robert D. Webster, 1981
Related name
  • Digitaria horizontalis
  • Digitaria leptorhachis
  • Digitaria sanguinalis
  • Digitaria chevalieri
  • Digitaria nuda
  • Digitaria reflexa

Flora

Entry for Digitaria horizontalis Willd. [family ]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of West Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of West Tropical Africa, Vol 3, Part 2,
Names
Digitaria horizontalis Willd. [family ], Enum. Hort. Berol. 92 (1809); F.T.A. 9: 436; Henr. l.c. 329; Chev. Bot. 732, and in Rev. Bot. Appliq. 13: 879.
Digitaria horizontalis var. porrantha (Steud.) Henr. ex Hubbard & Vaughan [family ], , The grasses of Mauritius and Rodriguez 88 (1940); Henr., Monogr.Digitaria 333
Panicum porranthum Steud. [family POACEAE], (1854)—Chev. Bot. 728
Panicum diamesum Steud. [family POACEAE], (1854)
Digitaria diamesum (Steud.) Henr. [family ], l.c. 177 (1950)
Digitaria reflexa Schumach. [family ], (1827)—Henr. l.c. 621
Digitaria nuda Schumach. [family ], (1827)—Henr. l.c. 500
Digitaria velutina [family ], of F.W.T.A., ed. 1, 2: 567; and of Berhaut, Fl. Sén. ed. 2, 400. (This closely allied species is confined to East Africa.)
Information
Creeping or ascending annual 30–60 cm. high;waste places.
Habitat
waste places.
Range
Throughout tropical Africa and America.
Distribution
Sen.: Perrottet 909! Kafountine (Sept.) Adam 18174!Gam.: Sankuli-Kunda (Sept.) Pirie 8! Yundum Ashrif 33!Port. G.: Piche (Sept.) Pereira 3174!Guin.: Baffing R. Pobéguin 1705bis! Kouroussa (July) Pobéguin 549! Kindia Jac.-Fél. 261!S. L.: Mabum (Aug.) Thomas 1545! Royanka (Sept.) Melville 8 Hooker 638! Rokupr (June) Jordan 274! Makump (Aug.) Deighton 1366! Musaia (Apr.) Deighton 5457!Lib.: Bushrod I. (Apr.) Barker 1291! Du R. (Aug.) Linder 223! Monrovia (May) Baldwin 5819! Ganta (July) Harley 1809! Gretown (July) Baldwin 6795!Iv. C.: Mbrabo (Jan.) Hédin! Tonkoui (Aug.) Boughey GC 18324! Lamé, Abidjan (Oct.) Leeuwenberg 1738! Cocody (June) Adjanohoun 416a! Gagnoa (Aug.) Boughey GC 14647!U. Volta: Banfora (July) Scholz 34! Ouagadougou (July) Scholz 34b!Ghana: Achimota, Accra (Apr.) Ankrah GC 20117! Damongo (Sept.) Rose Innes GC 30197! Mampong (Oct.) Baldwin 13532! Half Assinie (Dec.) Rose Innes GC 30542! Aburi (Apr.) Johnson 1010!Togo Rep.: Lomé Warnecke 340! Palime Stage 57!Dah.: Sémé (Sept.) Adjanohoun 531! Cotonou (July) Chev. 4477!N. Nig.: Ilorin (Oct.) Ward 45! Lokoja Richardson! Abinsi Dalz. 880! Acharane F.R., Kabba Prov. (June) J. K. Jackson 5163!S. Nig.: Lagos W. MacGregor 6! Ibadan (Nov.) Meikle 658! Okomu F.R. (Dec.) Brenan 8623! Umuahia (July) Jones FHI 6214! Opobo (Oct.) Jeffreys 8!W. Cam.: Buea (July, Oct.) Migeod 90! Maitland 3! 24! 203! Bamenda to Buli (Mar.) Brunt 1084!F. Po: Clarence Peak (Oct.) T. Vogel!

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