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|accepted_name=Dactyloctenium aegyptium
|accepted_authority=(L.) Willd.
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|common_names=Durban crowfoot
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|code=I
|label=Introduced
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae;Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae;Dactyloctenium;Dactyloctenium aegyptium
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Poaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Dactyloctenium]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Dactyloctenium aegyptium]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 25
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 113
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>tufted annuals or short¬lived, shortly stoloniferous perennials. <b>Culms</b> 10-35(100) cm, usually geniculately ascending and rooting at the lower nodes. <b>Sheaths</b> keeled, with papillose-based hairs distally; ligules 0.5-1.5 mm, membranous, ciliate; blades 5-22 cm long, 2-8(12) mm wide, with papillose-based hairs. <b>Panicle</b> branches (1)2-6(8), 1.5-6 cm, only the first few spikelets in contact with the spikelets of adjacent branches; branch axes extending beyond the spikelets for 1-6 mm. <b>Spikelets</b> 3-4.5 mm long, about 3 mm wide. <b>Glumes</b> 1.5-2 mm; lower glumes ovate, acute; upper glumes oblong elliptic, obtuse, awned, awns 1-2.5 mm; lemmas 2.5-3.5 mm, ovate, midveins extended into curved, 0.5-1 mm awns; paleas about as long as the lemmas; anthers 0.5-0.8 mm, pale yellow. <b>Seeds</b> cuboid, about 1 mm long and wide, transversely rugose, light tan to reddish-brown. <b>2n</b> = 20, 36, 40, 45, 48.</span><!--

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|distribution=Pacific Islands (Hawaii);Fla.;N.J.;N.Mex.;Tex.;La.;Tenn.;N.C.;S.C.;Pa.;N.Y.;Va.;Colo.;Calif.;Puerto Rico;Virgin Islands;Ala.;Ark.;Ill.;Ga.;Ariz.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Ohio;Miss.
|discussion=<p><i>Dactyloctenium aegyptium</i> is a widely distributed weed of disturbed sites in the Flora region. It is also considered a weed in southern Africa, but the seeds have been used for food and drink in times of famine. In addition, bruised young seeds have been used as a fish poison, and extracts are reputed to help kidney ailments and coughing (Koekemoer 1991). In Australia, it is planted as a sand stabilizer along the coast (Jacobs and Hastings 1993).</p>
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name=Dactyloctenium aegyptium
|authority=(L.) Willd.
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Poaceae
|illustrator=Linda A. Vorobik;Karen Klitz
|illustration copyright=Utah State University
|distribution=Pacific Islands (Hawaii);Fla.;N.J.;N.Mex.;Tex.;La.;Tenn.;N.C.;S.C.;Pa.;N.Y.;Va.;Colo.;Calif.;Puerto Rico;Virgin Islands;Ala.;Ark.;Ill.;Ga.;Ariz.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Ohio;Miss.
|reference=None
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|publication year=
|special status=Introduced
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae
|genus=Dactyloctenium
|species=Dactyloctenium aegyptium
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