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Dactyloctenium australe

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Identification
Dactyloctenium australe Steud. [family POACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Phillips, S. M.,
Related name
  • Dactyloctenium aegyptiacum
  • Dactyloctenium australe

Flora

Entry for DACTYLOCTENIUM ægyptiacum Willd. [family POACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 7, page 310, (1900) Author: (By O. STAPF.)
Names
DACTYLOCTENIUM ægyptiacum Willd. [family POACEAE], Enum. Pl. Hort. Berol. 1029;—Beauv. Agrost. t. xv. fig. 2; Kunth, Enum. i. 261; Suppl. 204 A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 406; Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 2 Baker, Fl. Maurit. 452; Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. ii. App. ii. 34; Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 868.
DACTYLOCTENIUM mucronatum Willd. [family POACEAE], l.c.; Trin. Sp. Gram. Ic. t. 69; Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 150; Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. 212; Anderss. in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 555.
DACTYLOCTENIUM Figarii De Not. [family POACEAE], Catal. Sem. Hort. Genuens. 1847, and in Ann. Sc. Nat. sér. 3, ix. (1848) 325; Steud, l.c.
DACTYLOCTENIUM australe Steud. [family POACEAE], l.c.; Durand & Schinz, l.c. 869.
Cynosurus ægyptius Linn. [family POACEAE], Sp. Pl. 72.
Cenchrus ægyptiacus Beauv. [family POACEAE], Agrost. 157.
Rabdochloa mucronata Beauv. [family POACEAE], l.c. 176.
Eleusine ægyptiaca Desf. [family POACEAE], Fl. Atl. i. 85; Hook. f. Fl. Ind. vii. 295.
Eleusine cruciata Lam. [family POACEAE], Illustr. i. 203, t. 48, fig. 2.
Eleusine mucronata Stokes [family POACEAE], Mat. Med. i. 150.
Eleusine pectinata Moench [family POACEAE], Meth. Suppl. 68.
Eleusine prostrata Spreng. [family POACEAE], Syst. i. 350.
Information
annual, 1–1 1/2 ft. high; stems sometimes prostrate, rooting from the proliferously branched nodes; culms geniculately ascending, compressed, 2–3-noded, glabrous, smooth, internodes exserted; sheaths striate, the lower whitish, keeled above, glabrous, or scantily hispid; ligules membranous, very short, scantily ciliolate; blades linear, tapering to a fine point, 1–5 in. by 1–2 lin., flat, subflaccid, glaucous, glabrous or hispid or hispidly ciliate, hairs tubercle-based; spikes 2–6, rarely solitary, 1/2–2 in. long, light or dark olive-grey; rhachis keeled, scabrid; spikelets 3–5-flowered, spreading at right angles, up to 1 1/2 lin. long, glabrous; lower glume about 3/4 lin. long, the upper cuspidately mucronate or awned; awn curved, sometimes exceeding the glume; valves 1 1/4–1 1/2 lin. long, mucronate or awned; anthers about 1/2– 3/4 lin. long; grain 1/2– 3/4 lin. long, very rugose, reddish. null
Range
Widely spread throughout the tropical and subtropical regions.
Distribution
COAST REGION Bathurst Div.; Port Alfred, Hutton! Komgha Div.; near the mouth of the Kei River, Flanagan, 969!EASTERN REGION Pondoland; on the shore, between Umtsikaba River and Umtentu River, Drège, 4310! Natal; near Durban, Williamson, 38! Plant, 85! Durban Flats, Buchanan, 36! Berea, Wood, 5929! Delagoa Bay, Forbes!KALAHARI REGION Transvaal; Bosch Veld, at Klippan, Rehmann, 5357!

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