• Family : POACEAE
• Family (As per The Plant List) : Poaceae
• Species : Dactyloctenium aegyptium
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Dactyloctenium aegyptium (L.) Willd.
• Common name : Egyptian Grass
• Vernacular name : Takrahva (San.); Kadu ragi hullu, Konana tale hullu (Kan.)
• Collection Nos : HFP 346, CJS 14224
• Key identification features : An annual grass. Culms erect or prostrate and rooting at nodes. Leaves are linear-acuminate, glaucous; ligule short and membranous. Spikes digitately radiating, up to 3.8 cm. long. Spikelets 3-4 mm. long and 3-5-flowered. Lower glume ovate, acute. Upper glume as long as the lower or slightly longer, oblong, awned. Lemmas strongly cuspidate; lowest 3-3.5 mm.
• Habit : Herb
• Native : Old World Tropics.
• Comments : Very common in wastelands.
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Distribution Locality : Bagalkot, Bangalore, Belgaum, Bellary, Bidar, Bijapur, Chamrajnagar, Chikamagalur, Chikkaballapur, Chitradurga, Dakshina Kannada, Davanagere, Dharwad, Gadag, Gulbarga, Hassan, Haveri, Kodagu, Kolar, Koppal, Mandya, Mysore, Raichur, Ramanagara, Shimoga, Tumkur, Udupi, Uttara Kannada, Yadgir
• Floras referred : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Hassan; Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 - Bangalore; Seetharam et al., 2000 - Gulbarga; Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara

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