Taxon: Dactyloctenium aegyptium (L.) Willd.
Genus: Dactyloctenium
Family: Poaceae (alt. Gramineae) subfamily: Chloridoideae tribe: Cynodonteae.
Nomen number: 13133
Place of publication: Enum. pl. 2:1029. 1809 "aegyptiacum"
Name verified on: 24-Nov-2008 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 24-Nov-2008
Species priority site is: Plant Genetic Resources Conservation Unit, Griffin, GA (S9). Accessions:
5 in National Plant Germplasm System.
Check PlantSearch
database of Botanic Gardens
Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.
- coast button grass (Source: Pl Res SEAs
) – English
- comb fringe grass (Source: J. Veldkamp, p.c.) – English
- crowfoot grass (Source: Dict Rehm
) – English
- duck grass (Source: Grass SAfr
) – English
- Durban crowfoot (Source: F NAmer
) – English
- finger comb grass (Source: J. Veldkamp, p.c.) – English
- finger grass (Source: Aust Pl Common Names
) – English
- na'eem el-saleeb (Source: F Egypt
) – Arabic
- rigl'al'harbaya (Source: Weeds Saudi Arabia
) – Arabic
- makri (Source: Dict Rehm
) – India
- estrela (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- grama-de-dedo-egípcia (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- grama-egípcia (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- mão-de-sapo (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- três-dedos (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- knapphirs (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn
) – Swedish
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Native:
- AFRICA
Macaronesia: Cape Verde; Portugal - Madeira Islands Northern Africa: Algeria; Egypt; Libya; Morocco; Tunisia Northeast Tropical Africa: Eritrea; Ethiopia; Somalia; Sudan East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania [incl. Pemba, Zanzibar]; Uganda West-Central Tropical Africa: Cameroon; Equatorial Guinea [incl. Bioko]; Zaire West Tropical Africa: Benin; Burkina Faso; Cote D'Ivoire; Gambia; Ghana; Guinea; Liberia; Mali; Mauritania; Niger; Nigeria; Senegal; Sierra Leone; Togo South Tropical Africa: Angola; Malawi; Mozambique; Zambia; Zimbabwe Southern Africa: Botswana; Namibia; South Africa - Cape Province, KwaZulu-Natal, Transvaal; Swaziland Western Indian Ocean: Madagascar; Mauritius; Reunion; Seychelles
- ASIA-TEMPERATE
Arabian Peninsula: Arabia Western Asia: Afghanistan; Israel; Lebanon; Turkey [s.] China: China - Fujian, Guangdong, Guizhou, Hainan, Yunnan, Zhejiang
- ASIA-TROPICAL
Indian Subcontinent: India; Nepal; Pakistan; Sri Lanka Indo-China: Myanmar Malesia: Malaysia; Philippines
Naturalized: (links to
other web resources are provided for some distributions)
- EUROPE
Southeastern Europe: Italy Southwestern Europe: Spain
- NORTHERN AMERICA
Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - California Mexico
- SOUTHERN AMERICA
Mesoamerica: Belize Brazil: Brazil - Amapa, Ceara, Espirito Santo, Maranhao, Mato Grosso do Sul, Para, Rio de Janeiro Western South America: Colombia Southern South America: Argentina
- Plants of southern Africa: an online checklist.
- 't Mannetje, L. & R. M. Jones, eds.
1992. Forages.
In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA).
4:104.
- Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson.
2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
- Ali, S. I. & S. M. H. Jafri, eds.
1976–. Flora of Libya.
[lists as D. aegyptium (L.) P. Beauv.].
- Arechavaleta, M. et al., eds.
2005. Lista preliminar de especies silvestres de Cabo Verde: hongos, plantas y animales terrestres.
- Baldwin, B. G. et al., eds.
The Jepson manual: vascular plants of California (on-line resource).
- Boulos, L.
1999–. Flora of Egypt.
- Chaudhary, S. A.
1987. Weeds of Saudi Arabia and theb Arabian Peninsula.
- Euro+Med Editorial Committee.
Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource).
- Exell, A. W. et al., eds.
1960–. Flora zambesiaca.
- FNA Editorial Committee.
1993–. Flora of North America.
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
- Forzza, R. C. et al., coord.
Lista de espécies da flora do Brasil (on-line resource).
- Gibbs-Russell, G. E. et al.
1990. Grasses of southern Africa. Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa vol. 58.
- Giraldo-Cañas, D.
2011. Catálogo de la familia Poaceae en Colombia.
Darwiniana
49:139–247.
- Groth, D.
2005. pers. comm.
[re. Brazilian common names].
- Hammel, B. E. et al., eds.
2003–. Manual de plantas de Costa Rica.
- Hansen, A. & P. Sunding.
1993. Flora of Macaronesia: checklist of vascular plants, ed. 4. Sommerfeltia vol. 17.
[lists as D. aegyptium (L.) P. Beauv.].
- Hara, H. et al.
1978–1982. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal.
[lists as D. "aegypticum" (L.) P. Beauv.].
- Harling, G. & B. Sparre, eds.
1973–. Flora of Ecuador.
- Hedberg, I. & S. Edwards.
1989–. Flora of Ethiopia. (and Eritrea. 2000)
- Hitchcock, A. S.
1950. Manual of the grasses of the United States, ed. 2.
[lists as D. aegyptium (L.) P. Beauv.].
- Hnatiuk, R. J.
1990. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11.
[lists as D. aegyptium (L.) P. Beauv.].
- Holm, L. et al.
1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds.
- Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS).
Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
- Keay, R. W. J. & F. N. Hepper.
1953–1972. Flora of west tropical Africa, ed. 2.
[lists as D. aegyptium (L.) P. Beauv.].
- Merrill, E. D.
1922–1926. An enumeration of Philippine flowering plants.
[lists as D. aegyptium (L.) Richt.].
- Mouterde, P.
1966–. Nouvelle flore du Liban et de la Syrie.
[lists as D. aegyptium (L.) Asch. & Schw.].
- Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds.
1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan.
- Peterson, P. M. et al.
2001. Catalogue of New World grasses (Poaceae): II. Subfamily Chloridoideae.
Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb.
41:64–65.
- Quézel, P. & S. Santa.
1962–1963. Nouvelle flore de l'Algerie.
[lists as D. aegyptium (L.) Asch. & Schw.].
- Radford, A. E. et al.
1964. Manual of the vascular flora of the Carolinas.
- Rehm, S.
1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
- Shukla, U.
1996. Grasses of north-eastern India.
- Smith, A. C.
1979–1991. Flora vitiensis nova.
- Thulin, M., ed.
1993–. Flora of Somalia.
- Townsend, C. C. & E. Guest.
1966–. Flora of Iraq.
[lists as D. aegyptium (L.) P. Beauv.].
- Turrill, W. B. et al., eds.
1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa.
- Veldkamp, J. F.
1997. pers. comm.
[re. common names].
- Vibrans, H., ed.
Malezas de México (on-line resource).
- Villaseñor, J. L. & F. J. Espinoza-Garcia.
2004. The alien flowering plants of Mexico.
Diversity & Distrib.
10:113–123.
- Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds.
1994–. Flora of China (English edition).
- Zohary, M. & N. Feinbrun-Dothan.
1966–. Flora palaestina.
- Zon, A. P. M. van der.
1992. Graminées du Cameroun.
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inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require
specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with
properly documented herbarium material.
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