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