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Digitaria ciliaris (Henry's crabgrass; kukaepua'a; fingergrass; saulangi; smooth crabgrass; Southern crab grass; southern crabgrass; tropical crabgrass)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Digitaria ciliaris is a species of grass known by the common names southern crabgrass, tropical finger-grass, tropical crabgrass or summer grass. The grass is known as "ගුරු තණ - guru thana" in Sri Lanka.
View Wikipedia Record: Digitaria ciliaris

Attributes

Edible [1]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [1]  Hermaphrodite
Leaf Type [2]  Evergreen
Lifespan [1]  Annual
Structure [2]  Grass
Height [1]  24 inches (0.6 m)
View Plants For A Future Record : Digitaria ciliaris

Protected Areas

Predators

Providers

Pollinated by 
Melanostoma scalare[3]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Helicotylenchus dihystera (Steiner's spiral nematode)[8]
Helicotylenchus multicinctus[8]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 2Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 3Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 4Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ 5del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 6Diet of the endangered Tehuantepec jackrabbit, Lepus flavigularis, Consuelo Lorenzo, Arturo Carrillo-Reyes, Maricela Gómez-Sánchez, Azucena Velázquez and Eduardo Espinoza, THERYA, Abril, 2011 Vol.2(1): 67-76
♦ 7Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 8Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0