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
  
• 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)
  

Economic importance:

• Animal food: fodder; forage   (fide Pl Res SEAs 4:104. 1992)
  
• Weed: also 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 [s.]
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India; Nepal; Pakistan; Sri Lanka
  Indo-China: Myanmar
  Malesia: Malaysia; Philippines

• naturalized elsewhere

References:

• 't Mannetje, L. & R. M. Jones, eds. 1992. Forages. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). (Pl Res SEAs) 4:104.
• Ali, S. I. & S. M. H. Jafri, eds. 1976–. Flora of Libya. (F 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. (L Cabo Verde)
• Boulos, L. 1999–. Flora of Egypt. (F Egypt)
• Exell, A. W. et al., eds. 1960–. Flora zambesiaca. (F Zamb)
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
• Gibbs-Russell, G. E. et al. 1990. Grasses of southern Africa. Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa vol. 58. (Grass SAfr)
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Hansen, A. & P. Sunding. 1993. Flora of Macaronesia: checklist of vascular plants, ed. 4. Sommerfeltia vol. 17. (L Macar ed4) [lists as D. aegyptium (L.) P. Beauv.].
• Hara, H. et al. 1978–1982. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal. (L Nepal) [lists as D. "aegypticum" (L.) P. Beauv.].
• Harling, G. & B. Sparre, eds. 1973–. Flora of Ecuador. (F Ecuador)
• Hedberg, I. & S. Edwards. 1989–. Flora of Ethiopia. (and Eritrea. 2000) (F Ethiop)
• Hitchcock, A. S. 1950. Manual of the grasses of the United States, ed. 2. (Grass US) [lists as D. aegyptium (L.) P. Beauv.].
• Hnatiuk, R. J. 1990. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11. (L Aust) [lists as D. aegyptium (L.) P. Beauv.].
• Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds. (Atlas WWeed)
• Keay, R. W. J. & F. N. Hepper. 1953–1972. Flora of west tropical Africa, ed. 2. (F WT Afr) [lists as D. aegyptium (L.) P. Beauv.].
• Malezasdemexico. Malezas de México - on-line resource. (Malezas Mex)
• Merrill, E. D. 1922–1926. An enumeration of Philippine flowering plants. (F Philipp) [lists as D. aegyptium (L.) Richt.].
• Mouterde, P. 1966–. Nouvelle flore du Liban et de la Syrie. (F Liban) [lists as D. aegyptium (L.) Asch. & Schw.].
• Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan. (F Pak)
• Quézel, P. & S. Santa. 1962–1963. Nouvelle flore de l'Algerie. (F Alger) [lists as D. aegyptium (L.) Asch. & Schw.].
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
• Shukla, U. 1996. Grasses of north-eastern India. (Grass NE India)
• Smith, A. C. 1979–1991. Flora vitiensis nova. (F Viti)
• Thulin, M., ed. 1993–. Flora of Somalia. (F Somalia)
• Townsend, C. C. & E. Guest. 1966–. Flora of Iraq. (F Iraq) [lists as D. aegyptium (L.) P. Beauv.].
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa. (F TE Afr)
• Veldkamp, J. F. 1997. pers. comm. [re. common names].
• Zohary, M. & N. Feinbrun-Dothan. 1966–. Flora palaestina. (F Palest)
• Zon, A. P. M. van der. 1992. Graminées du Cameroun. (Grass Camer)

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Synonyms:

• (≡) Cynosurus aegyptius L. (basionym)
  
• (=) Eleusine aegyptiaca (L.) Desf.
  (previously associated with 12 accessions)

Check other databases for Dactyloctenium aegyptium (L.) Willd.:

• 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
• 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.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

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• Forestry Images: from www.forestryimages.org
• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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