Dactyloctenium aegyptium P.Beauv.

English: Crowfoot Grass, Egyptian Grass

German: Gewöhnliches Schirmgras

Mandarin: 龙爪茅 (long zhao mao)

Kingdom: Plantae (2586)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2483)

    Class: Liliopsida (384)

      Order: Cyperales (91)

        Family: Poaceae (72)(family description)

          Genus: Dactyloctenium (2)

            Epithet: aegyptium P.Beauv. (1)

Synonym: Chloris mucronata Michx.

aegyptium => of Egyptian origin

mucronata => terminating, an organ with a straight, stiff and sharp point

Climate: sub-tropical, tropical

Habitat: mesophytic

Habit: herb

Check for Dactyloctenium aegyptium at

World Flora Online, GBIF or IPNI

• [243] Dactyloctenium aegyptium - Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk (PIER)
• [1172] Dactyloctenium aegyptium - GrassBase - The Online World Grass Flora
• [1293] Dactyloctenium aegyptium - Plants For A Future
• [1501] Dactyloctenium aegyptium - Flora of China @ efloras.org

• [12] Dokosi, O.B. (1998): Herbs of Ghana. Ghana University Press, Accra, Ghana.
• [14] Sauerborn E., Sauerborn J. (1984): Plants of cropland in Western Samoa with special reference to taro. Verlag Josef Margraf, Weikersheim, Germany.