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|accepted_name=Dactyloctenium
|accepted_authority=Willd.
|publications=
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae;Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae;Dactyloctenium
|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>
|volume=Volume 25
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 112
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>annual or perennial; tufted, stoloniferous, or rhizomatous. <b>Culms</b> 5-115(160) cm, erect or decumbent, often rooting at the lower nodes, not branching above the base. <b>Sheaths</b> not over¬lapping, open, keeled; auricles absent; ligules membranous, membranous and ciliate, or of hairs; blades flat or involute. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal, panicles of 2-11, digitately arranged spicate branches; branches with axes 0.8-11 cm long, extending beyond the spikelets, terminating in a point, the spikelets imbricate in 2 rows on the lower sides. <b>Spikelets</b> with 3-7 bisexual florets, additional sterile florets distally; disarticulation usually above the glumes, the florets falling as a unit. <b>Glumes</b> unequal, shorter than the adjacent lemmas, 1-veined, keeled; lower glumes acute, mucronate; upper glumes subapically awned, awns curved; calluses glabrous; lemmas membranous, glabrous, 3-veined (lateral veins sometimes indistinct), strongly keeled, apices entire, mucronate, or awned; paleas glabrous; anthers 3, yellow; ovaries glabrous; styles fused. <b>Fruit</b> utricles; seeds falling free of the hyaline pericarp, transversely rugose or granular, x = 10.</span><!--

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|distribution=Pacific Islands (Hawaii);Fla.;N.J.;N.Mex.;Tex.;La.;Tenn.;N.C.;S.C.;Pa.;Ariz.;Mass.;N.Y.;Va.;Colo.;Calif.;Puerto Rico;Virgin Islands;Ala.;Ark.;Ill.;Ga.;Maine;Md.;Ohio;Miss.
|discussion=<p><i>Dactyloctenium</i> is primarily an African and Australian genus of 10-13 species. Three species have been introduced in the Flora region, two of which have become established. <i>Dactyloctenium aegyptium</i> is widespread throughout the warmer areas of the world.</p>
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|id=black1978a
|text=Black, J.M. 1978. Gramineae. Pp. 88-249 in J.M. Black. Flora of South Australia, Part I, ed. 3 (rev. J.P. Jessop). D.J. Woolman, Government Printer, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. 466 pp.
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|id=clayton1974a
|text=Clayton, W.D., S.M. Phillips, and S.A. Renvoize. 1974. Flora of Tropical East Africa. Gramineae (Part 2) (ed. R.M. Pohill). Whitefriars Press, Ltd., London, England. 373 pp.
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|id=jacobs1993b
|text=Jacobs, S.W.L. and S.M. Hastings. 1993. Dactyloctenium. Pp. 527-529 in G.J. Harden (ed.). Flora of New South Wales, vol. 4. New South Wales University Press, Kensington, New South Wales, Australia. 775 pp.
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|id=koekemoer1991a
|text=Koekemoer, M. 1991. Dactylocteniium Wild. Pp. 99-101 in G.E. Gibbs Russell, L. Watson, M. Koekemoer, L. Smook, N.P. Barker, H.M. Anderson, and M.J. Dallwitz. Grasses of Southern Africa (ed. O.A. Leistner). National Botanic Gardens, Botanical Research Institute, Pretoria, Republic of South Africa. 437 pp.
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Panicle branches 0.4-1.5 cm long; most spikelets touching those of an adjacent branch
|[[Dactyloctenium radulans|Dactyloctenium radulans]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Panicle branches 1.5-7 cm long; only the first few proximal spikelets on each branch in contact with those on an adjacent branch.
|[[#key-0-2| > 2]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Anthers 0.5-0.9 mm long; upper glume awns 1-2.5 mm long
|[[Dactyloctenium aegyptium|Dactyloctenium aegyptium]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Anthers 1.1-1.7 mm long; upper glume awns 4.5-10 mm long
|[[Dactyloctenium geminatum|Dactyloctenium geminatum]]
|}
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name=Dactyloctenium
|author=Stephan L. Hatch;
|authority=Willd.
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Poaceae
|distribution=Pacific Islands (Hawaii);Fla.;N.J.;N.Mex.;Tex.;La.;Tenn.;N.C.;S.C.;Pa.;Ariz.;Mass.;N.Y.;Va.;Colo.;Calif.;Puerto Rico;Virgin Islands;Ala.;Ark.;Ill.;Ga.;Maine;Md.;Ohio;Miss.
|reference=black1978a;clayton1974a;jacobs1993b;koekemoer1991a
|publication title=
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae
|genus=Dactyloctenium
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