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Dactyloctenium pilosum Stapf | |
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| Description Densely tufted annual with slender decumbent and heavily branched culms up to 18 cm high. Leaf-blades flat, 1.5-6.5 cm long and 2-4 mm wide, acute, glabrous to softly pilose. Inflorescence of diverging spikes each 1.4-3.5 cm in length. Spikelets 3-5-flowered, 2.3-4 mm long, supported by tufts of long hairs, the upper glume only mucronate or with an awn up to 1/2 as long as the glume; lemmas acute and mucronate; anthers 0.6-0.75 mm long; grain 0.7 mm long, obovate, finely granular. |
 Dactyloctenium pilosum |
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Habitat On coral rocks by the sea. Altitude range Sea level Distribution Kenya; also in Seychelles. Use Not reported. Edited by: F. Guiso Gallisai
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