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|accepted_name=Dactyloctenium geminatum
|accepted_authority=Hack.
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|common_names=Double combgrass
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae;Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae;Dactyloctenium;Dactyloctenium geminatum
|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 class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Dactyloctenium geminatum]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 25
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 113
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial; stoloniferous, mat-forming. <b>Culms</b> 35-112 cm, ascending. <b>Blades</b> 4-25 cm long, 3-6 mm wide, flat, more or less glabrous. <b>Panicle</b> branches (1)2(3), 2.5-7 cm, often slightly falcate, only the first few spikelets in contact with the spikelets of adjacent branches. <b>Spikelets</b> 3-5.3 mm, with 3-6 florets. <b>Glumes</b> subequal, 1.3-1.8 mm, widely elliptic to ovate or obovate in profile, awned, awns 4.5-10 mm; lemmas 3-3.8 mm, lanceolate, keels smooth or finely scabridulous towards the acute or mucronate apices; palea keels not winged; anthers 1.1-1.7 mm. <b>Seeds</b> about 1 mm long, transversely rugose. <b>2n</b> = unknown.</span><!--

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|discussion=<p><i>Dactyloctenium geminatum</i> is native to tropical eastern Africa. It was found at one time on ballast dumps in Maryland, but has not survived in North America.</p>
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name=Dactyloctenium geminatum
|authority=Hack.
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
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|family=Poaceae
|illustrator=Linda A. Vorobik;Karen Klitz
|illustration copyright=Utah State University
|reference=None
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae
|genus=Dactyloctenium
|species=Dactyloctenium geminatum
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