Digitaria abyssinica

TaxID: 977936

Basic Information

Digitaria abyssinica

Abyssinian Finger Grass, Abyssinian finger grass

Digitaria abyssinica, the East African couchgrass, is a species of flowering plant in the family Poaceae. It is native to Sub?Saharan Africa (except West Africa), Madagascar, many of the Indian Ocean islands, the Arabian Peninsula, Sri Lanka, Peninsular Malaysia, Vietnam, New Guinea, and Queensland in Australia, and it has been introduced to scattered locations in Central America and northern South America, and to Saint Helena. Although it is a livestock forage, albeit a low?quality one, it is generally considered a noxious weed.

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Taxonomic Information

Eukaryota

Streptophyta

Magnoliopsida

Poales

Poaceae

Digitaria

abyssinica

nan

Photos (5 photos)

Digitaria abyssinica
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(c) Kevin Faccenda@BY
Digitaria abyssinica
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(c) Kevin Faccenda@BY
Digitaria abyssinica
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(c) Kevin Faccenda@BY
Digitaria abyssinica
c
(c) Kevin Faccenda@BY
Digitaria abyssinica
c
(c) Kevin Faccenda@BY

Morphological Features

No morphological description available.

Host Plants (0 host plants)

Data sources: EPPO Global Database and relevant literature.

No host plants available.

Quarantine Status (5 records)

Data sources: IPPC website and national quarantine websites; verified by human review.

Country Status Year Added
Cuba Absent —
Indonesia Absent —
Jordan A1 list 2013
Mexico Quarantine pests 2018
United States of America Quarantine pests 1989

Distribution (47 countries)

Data Sources: EPPO Global Database and GBIF.

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Present
0
Absent
0
Unknown/Other
Country Status State
Australia Present —
Burundi Present —
Belgium Present —
Burkina Faso Present —
Brazil Present —
Botswana Present —
Central African Republic Present —
Cameroon Present —
Democratic Republic of the Congo Present —
Costa Rica Present —
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Distribution Map (Latitude and longitude coordinates sourced from GBIF.)

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Genomes (0 records)

Data source: NCBI.

No genome records available.

Transcriptomes (0 records)

Data source: NCBI.

No transcriptome records available.

DNA Barcodes (0 records)

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Data source: BOLD.

No DNA barcode records available.

Literature