Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family   

   MG020 : Dactyloctenium aegyptium (L.) Willd.

Plant Category : Grasses

Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 581

Synonym : Eleusine aegyptiaca;

Plant Common Name : K-Kada Zara, Crowfoot Grass, beach wiregrass, coast button grass, comb fringe grass, Duck grass, Durban crowfoot, Egyptian fingergrass, Egyptian grass, finger comb grass, four-finger grass, Makra, Pungphai

Plant Family : Poaceae / Gramineae

Description : Crowfoot Grass is a slender to moderately robust, spreading annual herb, with wiry stems, that bend and root at the lower nodes, with tips that may rise to about 2 ft in height. It is a very common weed of open spaces and wasteland. Leaves are typically grass-like,2-30 cm long, 2-9 mm wide, with blades and sheaths that are without hair. Leaf margins have long, stiff hairs. Flowers arise in 1-7 spikes, 1-6.2 cm long, 3-7 mm wide, at the tip of stems. Seed head resembles a crow's foot, hence the common name. Crowfoot Grass is native to Africa, but naturalized world-wide.

Plant Location in Melghat : -

Medicinal Use / Activity : anti-oxidant, anti-inflamatory, anti-cancer and anti-pyretic properties (Khumbongmayum et al., 2005; Hansakul et al., 2009; Jananie et al., 2011) and is used for treating small pox, wounds and ulcers (Heuze et al., 2013). In Manipur, juice of fresh plants is prescribed in fevers. Decoction of the plant is given in small pox.

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Plant's Current Status : -

Plant's Cross Database Reference : 259142

Reference : Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve - https://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Crowfoot%20Grass.html

Reference : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID :

Kingdom : Plantae - Plants
Phylum : Tracheophyta
Subkingdom : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants
Superdivision : Spermatophyta - Seed plants
Division : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants
Class : Liliopsida - Monocotyledons
Subclass : Commelinidae
Order : Cyperales
Family : Poaceae / Gramineae - Grass family
Genus : Dactyloctenium Willd. - crowfoot grass
Species : Dactyloctenium aegyptium (L.) Willd. - Egyptian grass

Dactyloctenium aegyptium (L.) Willd. - Egyptian grass
Dactyloctenium aegyptium (L.) Willd. - Egyptian grass