Setaria distans

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|image_caption = Growing in New South Wales

|taxon = Setaria distans

|authority = (Trin.) Veldkamp

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|Panicum commixtum|Steud.

|Panicum distans|Trin.

|Panicum pacificum|Tuyama, nom. illeg.

|Panicum radiatius|H.St.John

|Panicum tuyamae|Ohwi, pro syn.

|Paspalidium disjunctum|S.T.Blake

|Paspalidium distans|(Trin.) Hughes

|Paspalidium radiatum|Vickery

|Paspalidium scabrifolium|S.T.Blake

|Paspalidium tuyamae|Ohwi

|Setaria scabrifolia|(S.T.Blake) R.D.Webster, nom. illeg.

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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.

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