Taxon: Dactyloctenium aegyptium (L.) Willd.

Common names:

• 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
  

Economic importance:

• Animal food: fodder   (fide Pl Res SEAs 4:104. 1992)
  
• Animal food: forage   (fide Pl Res SEAs 4:104. 1992)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Atlas WWeed)
  

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Distributional range:

• 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

• 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

References:

• 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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Synonyms:

• (≡) Cynosurus aegyptius L. (basionym)
  
• (=) Eleusine aegyptiaca (L.) Desf.
  (previously associated with 13 accessions)

Check other web resources for Dactyloctenium aegyptium (L.) Willd.:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
• On-line Flora of Zimbabwe
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• CNWG: Catalogue of New World Grasses Searchable Database
• Grass Manual on the Web: Manual of Grasses for North America North of Mexico
• World Grass Species-Descriptions: Morphological species description from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Forestry Images: from www.forestryimages.org
• Spikelets and/or florets: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

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