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Definition of Dactyloctenium
1. Noun. A monocotyledonous genus of the family Gramineae.
Generic synonyms: Liliopsid Genus, Monocot Genus
Group relationships: Family Graminaceae, Family Gramineae, Family Poaceae, Graminaceae, Gramineae, Grass Family, Poaceae
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dactyloctenium
Literary usage of Dactyloctenium
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913)
"dactyloctenium Willd. Enum. 1029. 1809. Annual grasses with flat leaf-blades and
... 72. 1753. Eleusine aegyptia Pers. Syn. i: 87. 1805. dactyloctenium ..."
2. The Philippine Journal of Science by Institute of Science and Technology (Philippines) (1906)
"(56) dactyloctenium Willd. Empty glumes strongly mucronate-pointed; ...
cosmopolitan in the tropical and warmer regions of the World. (1) dactyloctenium ..."
3. Flora australiensis: a description of the plants of the Australian territory. by George Bentham, Ferdinand von Mueller (1878)
"186 ; dactyloctenium radu- lans, Beauv. ; Kunth, Enum. i. 262. N. Australia.
Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown, Gulliver ! Sir Charles Hardy's Archipelago, ..."
4. Grasses and Forage Plants: A Practical Treatise, Comprising Their Natural by Charles Louis Flint (1860)
"dactyloctenium. Egyptian Grass. Spikelets several-flowered, crowded on one side
of the flattened rachis, forming two to five close, comb- like spikes, ..."
5. Handbook of the Flora of Philadelphia and Vicinity: Containing Data Relating by Ida Augusta Keller, Stewardson Brown (1905)
"ELEUSINE.Gaertn. 1. ELEUSINE INDICA (L.) Gaertn. Wire-grass, Crab-grass. M. p.
124. Fields and waste places. Summer. 47. dactyloctenium Willd. 1. ..."
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