Dactyloctenium Willd.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1980, Flora Europaea. Volume 5. Alismataceae to Orchidaceae (Monocotyledones), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press : 259

125. Dactyloctenium Willd. 1

Annuals or perennials. Leaves flat. Inflorescence of digitately arranged spikes. Spikelets laterally compressed, crowded and imbricate, in 2 rows on an axis which is triangular in cross section; florets 3-5, all fertile. Glumesunequal, the lower persistent, the upper deciduous, with a curved awn or mucro; lemma similar to upper glume, with curved awn or mucro. Grain coarsely ridged and sculptured.