Dactyloctenium

• Authority

  Hitchcock, Albert S. 1927. The grasses of Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 24: i-xx, 291-556.

• Family

  Poaceae

• Scientific Name

  Dactyloctenium

• Description

  Description - Spikelets as in Eleusine, but the glumes and lemmas mucronate or awn-tipped; apex of the rachis extending as a point beyond the spikelets.