List of Digitaria species

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The following species in the grass genus Digitaria , the finger-grasses, are accepted by Plants of the World Online. [1] The genus contains the weedy crabgrasses and the orphan crops white fonio and black fonio. [2]

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References

  1. "Digitaria Haller". Plants of the World Online. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2022. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
  2. Ye, Chu-Yu; Fan, Longjiang (2021). "Orphan Crops and their Wild Relatives in the Genomic Era". Molecular Plant. 14 (1): 27–39. doi: 10.1016/j.molp.2020.12.013 . PMID   33346062. S2CID   229342158.