Dactyloctenium aegyptium
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| Family: | Poaceae |
| Full name: | Dactyloctenium aegyptium (L.) Willd. |
| ID status: | Fairly certain |
| Afrikaans common name(s): | Hoenderspoor |
| English common name(s): | Common crowfoot, Helicopter grass, Crow-foot grass, Chicken foot |
| Synonym(s): | Chloris guineensis Schumach. fide Fl. W. Trop. Africa Chloris mucronata Michx. fide Fl. Trop. E. Africa Cynosurus aegyptius L. fide Fl. Trop. E. Africa Dactyloctenium ciliare Chiov. Dactyloctenium figarei De Not. fide Fl. Trop. E. Africa Dactyloctenium meridionale Ham. fide Catalogue of New World Grasses (Poaceae): II. Subfamily Chloridoideae Dactyloctenium mpuetensis De Wild. Dactyloctenium mucronatum (Michx.) Willd. fide Catalogue of New World Grasses (Poaceae): II. Subfamily Chloridoideae Eleusine aegyptia Desf. Eleusine cruciata Lam. fide Fl. Cap. Eleusine pectinata Moench fide Fl. Cap. Eleusine prostrata Spreng. fide Fl. Cap. Rabdochloa mucronata (Michx.) P.Beauv. fide IPNI |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: | Spreading annual grass, rooting from the knee-bent lower nodes. Inflorescences digitate, often in thick radiating racemes with bristly spikelets. (from Flora of Zimbabwe website) Slender to moderately robust spreading annual; culms up to 70(100) cm tall, usually geniculately ascending and rooting from the lower nodes, often shortly stoloniferous and mat-forming, less often erect; leaf laminas 3–25 cm x 2.5–7.5(12) mm, flat, papillose-hispid especially along the margins. Racemes (1)3–9, 1.2–6.75 cm long, linear to narrowly oblong, ascending or radiating. Spikelets 3.5–4.5 mm long, broadly ovate, 3–4-flowered; glumes subequal, 1.5–2.2 mm long, the inferior lanceolate in profile with a thick scabrid keel, the superior elliptic to narrowly obovate in profile, the smooth keel extended into a stout divergent scabrid awn 0.5–2 times as long as the body; lemmas 2.6–4 mm long, narrowly ovate to ovate in profile, the keels gibbous, concave and scabrid above the middle and often extended into a stout cusp or mucro up to 1 mm long; palea keels winged or wingless; anthers 0.25–0.8 mm long. Caryopsis c. 1 mm long, broadly obovate to obtriangular, transversely rugose. (from JSTOR Global Plants website / Flora Zambesiaca) |
| Link(s) |
African Plant Database
JSTOR Plant Science Kew Herbarium Catalogue BGBM Berlin-Dahlem - Virtual Herbarium Züricher Herbarien iNaturalist (Namibia / Alex Dreyer) iNaturalist (Namibia) iNaturalist (southern Africa) Flora of Zimbabwe Fleurs de notre Terre - Galerie Namibie Tree Atlas of Namibia |
| Content last updated: | 18 Apr 2024 |
