Dactyloctenium aristatum Link

Species

Angiosperms > Poales > Poaceae > Dactyloctenium

Characteristics

Sprawling tufted annual; culms slender, 4–38 cm. high, geniculately ascending from a decumbent base, often rooting at the lower nodes.. Leaf-blades flat, 1–13 cm. long, 1.5–7 mm. wide, usually conspicuously papillose-hispid, sharply acuminate.. Inflorescence compact, composed of (2–)4–7(-11) oblong to broadly oblong spikes 0.8–1.8 cm. long clustered together in a dense, often subglobose head.. Spikelets 3–5-flowered, broadly ovate, 4.1–5.2 mm. long; glumes subequal, 1.7–2.3 mm. long, the lower narrowly lanceolate-oblong in profile, the keel thick, scabrid and often narrowly winged, the upper narrowly elliptic-oblong in profile, the keel extended into a stout awn shorter than or equalling the glume; lemmas lanceolate to narrowly ovate in profile, (3–)3.3–4.3 mm. long, acuminate, the keel concave, thick and scabrid above the middle and extended into a stout mucro up to 1 mm. long; palea-keels winged; anthers 0.3–0.5 mm. long.. Grain 0.75–1.1 mm. long, broadly elliptic to obovate in profile, dome-shaped across the top, finely granular or granular-striate.
Life form annual
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Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.04 - 0.38
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Hardiness (USDA) 8-12

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Distribution

Dactyloctenium aristatum world distribution map, present in Eritrea, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Kenya, Kuwait, Oman, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Somalia, and Yemen

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:397391-1
WFO ID wfo-0000861710
COL ID 6BYDX
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID 808936
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Synonyms

Dactyloctenium aristatum Dactyloctenium seminipunctatum Dactyloctenium aegyptium subsp. aristatum Dactyloctenium aegyptium var. aristatum Dactyloctenium glaucophyllum var. villlosum