Dactylis L.

• 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

  Dactylis L.

• Description

  Description - Spikelets 2 to 5-flowered, strongly compressed, subsessile in dense fascicles, these at the ends of stiff naked panicle branches; glumes and lemmas keeled, mucronate or the lemma awn-tipped.