| Setaria distans | |
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| Growing in New South Wales | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Clade: | Commelinids |
| Order: | Poales |
| Family: | Poaceae |
| Subfamily: | Panicoideae |
| Genus: | Setaria |
| Species: | S. distans |
| Binomial name | |
| Setaria distans (Trin.) Veldkamp [1] | |
| Synonyms [2] | |
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Setaria distans, synonyms including Paspalidium distans, is a species of flowering plant in the grass family Poaceae, native to New Caledonia, New Guinea, most of Australia and the Bonin Islands (Ogasawara-shoto). It was first described by Carl Bernhard von Trinius in 1829 as Panicum distans. [2]
