Taxon: Digitaria velutina (Forssk.) P. Beauv.

A declared noxious weed by USDA-APHIS.

A declared aquatic or terrestrial noxious weed and/or noxious-weed seed in these U.S. states (see state noxious weed lists), with links to state information or web documents:

FL*, MA*, NC*.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

Common names:

• long-plume finger grass   (Source: Grass SAfr ) – English
  
• velvet finger grass   (Source: USDA/APHIS ) – English
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Weed: also potential seed contaminant   (fide Atlas WWeed)
  

Distributional range:

      Native:

• AFRICA
  Northern Africa: Egypt [s.e.]
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Ethiopia; Sudan
  East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania; Uganda
  South Tropical Africa: Malawi; Mozambique; Zambia; Zimbabwe
  Southern Africa: Botswana
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Arabian Peninsula: Yemen

References:

• Andrews, F. W. 1950–1956. The flowering plants of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. (F Sudan)
• Exell, A. W. et al., eds. 1960–. Flora zambesiaca. (F Zamb)
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
• Gibbs-Russell, G. E. et al. 1990. Grasses of southern Africa. Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa vol. 58. (Grass SAfr)
• Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds. (Atlas WWeed)
• Malezasdemexico. Malezas de México - on-line resource. (Malezas Mex)
• Plant Protection and Quarantine Office. United States Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. Federal noxious weed list. (USDA/APHIS)
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
• Thulin, M., ed. 1993–. Flora of Somalia. (F Somalia)
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa. (F TE Afr)

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Digitaria velutina.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Digitaria velutina. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Phalaris velutina Forssk. (basionym)
  

Check other databases for Digitaria velutina (Forssk.) P. Beauv.:

• SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
• On-line Flora of Zimbabwe
• World Grass Species-Descriptions: Morphological species description from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

• Disseminule drawings: U.S. National Seed Herbarium drawing
• Embryo drawing: U.S. National Seed Herbarium drawing
• Forestry Images: from www.forestryimages.org

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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Cite as:
USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?316378 (09 February 2010)

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