Herbaria

Family

Gramineae (Poaceae)

subfamily

Panicoideae

Genus

Digitaria Heller

Species

Digitaria velutina (Forssk.) P.Beauv.

herbariaSubsps

herbariaVariety

Authority

(Forssk.) P.Beauv.

citation

Ess. Agrostogr. 51 (1812)

herbariaSynonyms

Phalaris velutina Forssk.

DiagnosticCharacters

herbariaPhytogeographicalTerritory

CAI (Ge)

herbariaSubLocality

herbariaDetailedLocality

herbariaDate

herbariaCollector

herbariaCollectorNo

herbariaNoOfSheets

herbariaHerbariumAbbr

CAI

herbariaBarCode

herbariaTotalNoOfSheets

CAI (37)

Habitat

Sandy soil

FlFrperiod

LifeForm

Therophyte

LifeSpan

Annual

herbariaArabicName

eilaab عيلاب

EnglishName

velvet fingergrass

herbariaUses

GlobalDistribution

Tropical & S. Africa, Madagascar, Arabian Peninsula.

Chorology

herbariaIUCNcategriesAvailable

herbariaBibliography

herbariaFullCitation

Täckholm, V. 1974. Students' Flora of Egypt ed.2. Cairo University

Täckholm, V, Täckholm, G. and Drar. 1941. Flora of Egypt. Vol.1:Bull.Fac.Sci. 17: 1-557

Cope, T. 2005. Gramineae in L. Boulos, Flora of Egypt, vol 4. Al Hadara publishing, Cairo, Egypt

Cope, T. and Hosni, H.1991. A key to Egyptian grasses. Royal Botanic gardens, Kew. 75 pp

Ibrahim, K., Hosni, H. and Peterson, P. 2016. Grasses of Egypt. Smithonian Contributoion to Botany no. 103

Peterson P.,Hosni H. and Shamso E. 2020. A key to the grasses (Poaceae) of Egypt. Webbia 75(2): 329-353

El Hadidi, M.N.& Fayed, A. 1994/95. Materials for Excursion Flora of Egypt (EFE). Taeckholmia 15