Family: Poaceae
Dactyloctenium
Citation:
Wiltd., Enum. Hort. Berol. 1029 (1809).
Derivation: Greek daktylos, finger; ktenion, a little comb; the spikes are digitate and comb-like.
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: None
Description:
Annuals or perennials, with prostrate to erect stems; leaf blades flat; ligule membranous.
Inflorescence an umbel of spikes; spikelets 3-5-flowered, compressed laterally, sessile and crowded in 2 rows along one side of the narrow rhachis of the spike and almost at right angles to it, the rhachis projecting in an erect point beyond the spikelets; terminal floret barren; rhachilla disarticulating; glumes 1-nerved, shorter than the florets, broad and boat-shaped, the first persistent, the second deciduous; lemmas also broad, stiff, keeled, acuminate, curved outwards along the keel, 3-nerved.
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Distribution:
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10 species from warm areas.
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Biology:
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