Dactyloctenium aegyptium (L.) Willd.

  • Authority

    Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.

  • Family

    Poaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Dactyloctenium aegyptium (L.) Willd.

  • Description

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    Species Description - Culms 1.5-6 dm. long, usually decumbent and extensively creeping at the base. Sheaths loose, overlapping and often crowded, smooth and glabrous; leaves 1.5 dm. in length or less, 2-6 mm. wide, smooth or rough, sometimes pubescent, eiliate toward the base; spikes in pairs, or 3-5 and digitate, 1.25-5 cm. long; spikelets 3-5-flowered; scales compressed, scabrous on the keel, the second awned, the flowering ones broader and pointed.

  • Distribution

    Waste places, New Providence, Eleuthera, Great Bahama, Fortune Island, Caicos Islands, and Inagua : New York to California, Florida and Texas ; common as a weed in the West Indies, in tropical America, and in the tropics of the Old World. Egyptian Grass.

    Eleuthera Bahamas South America| Turks and Caicos Islands South America| Inagua Bahamas South America| New York United States of America North America| California United States of America North America| Florida United States of America North America| Texas United States of America North America|