Dignathia

{{Short description|Genus of grasses}}

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Dignathia is a genus of African and Asian plants in the grass family.[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16155006#page/126/mode/1up Stapf, Otto 1911. Hooker's Icones Plantarum 30: plate 2950 + 3 subsequent text pages] descriptions in Latin, commentary + figure captions in English; line drawings of Dignathia gracilis (figures 1-12) and Dignathia hirtella (figure 13)[http://www.kew.org/data/grasses-db/www/gen00190.htm Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora]Peterson, P. M., K. Romaschenko & Y. Herrera Arrieta. 2014. A molecular phylogeny and classification of the Cteniinae, Farragininae, Gouiniinae, Gymnopogoninae, Perotidinae, and Trichoneurinae (Poaceae: Chloridoideae: Cynodonteae). Taxon 63(2): 275–286

; Species[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=451395 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families][http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/search?q=Dignathia The Plant List search for Dignathia]Thulin, M. (ed.) (1995). Flora of Somalia 4: i-ii, 1-298. The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.Hedberg, I. & Edwards, S. (eds.) (1995). Flora of Ethiopia and Eritrea 7: 1-430. The National Herbarium, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia & The Department of Systematic Botany, Upps.

• Dignathia aristata Cope - Kenya
• Dignathia ciliata C.E.Hubb. - Ethiopia, Somalia
• Dignathia gracilis Stapf - Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique
• Dignathia hirtella Stapf - Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Oman, Yemen, Gujarat
• Dignathia villosa C.E.Hubb. - Ethiopia, Somalia