Setaria punctata(Burm.f.) Veldkamp

WFO wfo-0000899493 Accepted WFO 2026-06 3 photographs CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–c · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Setaria punctata, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. a Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2009-08-02 / obs. 131229040
Setaria punctata, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. b Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 131229042
Setaria punctata, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. c Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 131229045

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Native range 21 botanical countries

Regions where Setaria punctata is native: Kenya, Tanzania, China Southeast, Hainan, Taiwan, Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, India, Jawa, Laos, Malaya, Myanmar, Nepal, New Guinea, Pakistan, Philippines, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam, West Himalaya KenyaTanzaniaChina SoutheastHainanTaiwanBangladeshBorneoCambodiaIndiaJawaLaosMalayaMyanmarNepalNew GuineaPakistanPhilippinesSumateraThailandVietnamWest Himalaya
Native distribution of Setaria punctata, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Bangladesh BAN ASIA-TROPICAL
Borneo BOR
Cambodia CBD
India IND
Jawa JAW
Laos LAO
Malaya MLY
Myanmar MYA
Nepal NEP
New Guinea NWG
Pakistan PAK
Philippines PHI
Sumatera SUM
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
West Himalaya WHM
China Southeast CHS ASIA-TEMPERATE
Hainan CHH
Taiwan TAI
Kenya KEN AFRICA
Tanzania TAN

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 6 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Panicum mucronatum Roth
  • Panicum punctatum Burm.f.
  • Paspalidium mucronatum (Roth) Ohwi
  • Paspalidium punctatum (Burm.f.) A.Camus
  • Paspalum aquaticum Masam. & Syozi
  • Paspalum pluriracemosum Steud.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.