Dactyloctenium aegyptium, Takraa, Panchaanguli

Dactyloctenium aegyptium (L.) Willd.
Family: Poaceae

Common name: Crowfoot Grass, beach wiregrass, coast button grass, comb fringe grass, Duck grass, Durban crowfoot, Egyptian fingergrass, Egyptian grass, finger comb grass, four-finger grass
Arabic: عدياب
Chinse:龙爪茅,
French: Dactylocténion d'Égypte
Hindi: मकड़ा Makra
Japanese: タツノツメガヤ
Malayalam: Kakkakalan pullu, Kavarapullu
Manipuri: পুঙফাঈ Pungphai
Sanskrit: Takraa, Takraahvaa, Panchaanguli, Nrityakaundaka.
Spanish: zacate egipcio, pata de gallo
Srilankan: පුටු තණ - putu thana
Svenska: Knapphirs
Thai: หญ้าปากควาย
Vietnamese: co chi, co'chân gà

Description: Annual; culms up to 70(100) cm high, usually geniculately ascending and rooting at the lower nodes, frequently shortly stoloniferous and mat-forming, less often erect. Leaf-blades flat, 3-25 cm long, 2.5-7.5 mm wide, papillose-hispid especially along the margins. Inflorescence composed of (1)3-9 linear to narrowly oblong spikes 1.2-6.5 cm long. Spikelets 3-4-flowered, broadly ovate, 3.5-4.5 mm long; glumes subequal, 1.5-2.2 mm long, the lower lanceolate in profile with a thick scabrid keel, the upper elliptic to narrowly obovate in profile, the smooth keel extended into a stout divergent scabrid awn half to twice as long as the glume; lemmas narrowly ovate to ovate in profile, 2.6-4 mm long, the keel gibbous, concave and scabrid above the middle and often extended into a stout cusp or mucro up to 1 mm long; palea-keels winged or wingless; anthers 0.25-0.8 mm long. Grain about 1 mm long, broadly obovate to obtriangular in profile, transversely rugose.

Annual,  tufted,  blades  shortly ascendent,  20-50 cm  high,  ramified  at  base,  leafy sheaths  smooth, bare.  Caryopses of various shapes, mostly  ±   spherical,  lateral  compressed,  distinct humpy,  0.9-1.1  x  0.7-0.9mm.  Surface  slight lustrous, pale reddish-brown. 2n = 36 (20, 34, 40). [ATLAS OF SEEDS AND FRUITS OF CENTRAL AND EAST-EUROPEAN FLORA]

Ayurvedic uses: Astringent, bitter tonic, anthelmintic. Used for polyurea; externally for wounds and ulcers. In Indian medicine, the grass is used for imparting medicinial properties of Takra (buttermilk) in intestinal, biliary and urinary diseases. [Indian Medicinal Plants An Illustrated Dictionary]

Whole plant: In a decoction for lumbago. Leaf: Infusion mixed with seeds of Cajanus cajan used to accelerate childbirth. Decoction of leaves with Scoparia dulcis for dysentery. [Medicinal Plants of the Guianas (Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana) ]

34 Published articles of Dactyloctenium aegyptium

1.       Diversity, antimicrobial and antioxidant activities of fungal endophytes in Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers. and Dactyloctenium aegyptium (L.) P. Beauv.

Rekha, D.; Shivanna, M. B.

International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences  Volume: 3   Issue: 8   Pages: 573-591   Published: 2014

2.       Honey glazed mutton used for e.g. adjusting blood fat, includes lamb, wormwood, Cordyceps, Dactyloctenium aegyptium, root, Magnolia flower, Coix root, horseradish, red bean paste, chestnut flour, coconut, seaweed powder and preserved fruit

Patent Number: CN103652966-A

Patent Assignee: HUAIYUAN DAYU FOOD TECHNOLOGY DEV CO LTD

Inventor(s): ZHANG X.

3.       Crowfootgrass (Dactyloctenium aegyptium) Germination and Response to Herbicides in the Philippines

Singh Chauhan, Bhagirath

WEED SCIENCE  Volume: 59   Issue: 4   Pages: 512-516   Published: OCT-DEC 2011

4.       Evaluation of Exserohilum longirostratum (Subram.) Sivan. for biological control of Dactyloctenium aegyptium (L.) Beauv.

Ninsuwan, N.; Chuenchit, S.; Petcharat, V.

International Journal of Agricultural Technology  Volume: 7   Issue: 2   Pages: 463-473   Published: 2011

5.       Apoptotic induction activity of Dactyloctenium aegyptium (L.) P.B. and Eleusine indica (L.) Gaerth. extracts on human lung and cervical cancer cell lines.

Hansakul, P.; Ngamkitidechakul, C.; Ingkaninan, K.; et al.

Songklanakarin Journal of Science and Technology  Volume: 31   Issue: 3   Pages: 273-279   Published: 2009

6.       PRIMERA CITA DE DACTYLOCTENIUM AEGYPTIUM (L.) WILLD. (POACEAE) EN LA COMUNITAT VALENCIANA

First record of Dactyloctenium aegyptium (L.) Willd. (Poaceae) in the Valencian Community (E of Spain)

Laguna, Emilio; Pablo Ferrer, P.; Collado-Rosique, Francisco; et al.

Studia Botanica  Volume: 28   Pages: 175-178   Published: 2009

7.       Influence of environmental factors on after-ripened crowfootgrass (Dactyloctenium aegyptium) seed germination

Burke, IC; Thomas, WE; Spears, JF; et al.

WEED SCIENCE  Volume: 51   Issue: 3   Pages: 342-347   Published: MAY-JUN 2003

8.       THE RESPONSE TO SALINITY OF A POPULATION OF DACTYLOCTENIUM-AEGYPTIUM FROM A SALINE HABITAT IN SOUTHERN NIGERIA

ADU, AA; YEO, AR; OKUSANYA, OT

JOURNAL OF TROPICAL ECOLOGY  Volume: 10   Pages: 219-228   Part: 2   Published: MAY 1994

9.       Ecophysiological characterization of Schoenefeldia gracilis (C-3) and Dactyloctenium aegyptium (C-4): Two major grasses of Sahelian rangelands

Maroco, J. P.; Chaves, M. M.

Conference: 9th Congress of the Federation of European Societies of Plant Physiology Location: Brno, Czech Republic Date: July 3-8, 1994

Biologia Plantarum (Prague)  Volume: 36   Issue: SUPPL.   Pages: S382   Published: 1994

10.   Dormancy behaviour of Dactyloctenium aegyptium and effect of temperature, pH and pre-soaking on seed germination.

Saeed, M. A.; Sabir, A. W.

Pakistan Journal of Agricultural Research  Volume: 14   Issue: 4   Pages: 314-319   Published: 1993

11.   GERMINATION BEHAVIOR OF DACTYLOCTENIUM-AEGYPTIUM FROM 2 LOCALITIES IN NIGERIA

OKUSANYA, OT; SONAIKE, AA

PHYSIOLOGIA PLANTARUM  Volume: 81   Issue: 4   Pages: 489-494   Published: APR 1991

12.   GROWTH AND REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR OF DIVERSE POPULATION OF DACTYLOCTENIUM-AEGYPTIUM L. BEAUV

SIDDIQUI K A; TIWARI H L; CHOUDHRI G N

Acta Botanica Indica  Volume: 16   Issue: 1   Pages: 8-11   Published: 1988

13.   CONTRIBUTION OF DACTYLOCTENIUM-AEGYPTIUM (L) BEAUV TO BIORECLAMATION OF SALT-AFFECTED SOIL

SIDDIQUI, KA

ANNALS OF ARID ZONE  Volume: 26   Issue: 4   Pages: 301-303   Published: DEC 1987

14.   RESPONSE OF DACTYLOCTENIUM-AEGYPTIUM L. BEAUV. TO DIFFERENT CATIONS

SIDDIQUI K A; TIWARI H L; CHOUDHURI G N

Geobios (Jodhpur)  Volume: 14   Issue: 6   Pages: 263-266   Published: 1987

15.   REPRODUCTIVE EFFORT IN CROWFOOT GRASS DACTYLOCTENIUM-AEGYPTIUM L. BEAUV

KOTESWARI M V; MARY T N

Indian Botanical Reporter  Volume: 5   Issue: 1   Pages: 10-13   Published: 1986

16.   A MOSAIC DISEASE OF CENTIPEDEGRASS AND CROWFOOTGRASS

HOLCOMB, GE

PHYTOPATHOLOGY  Volume: 75   Issue: 4   Pages: 500-500   Published: 1985

17.   ON THE MORPHOLOGICAL DIFFERENCES BETWEEN DACTYLOCTENIUM-AEGYPTIUM AND DACTYLOCTENIUM-ARISTATUM (GRAMINEAE)

SHARMA, ML

CURRENT SCIENCE  Volume: 53   Issue: 6   Pages: 326-327   Published: 1984

18.   THE EFFECT OF SOME GROWTH REGULATORS AND PESTICIDES ON POLLEN GERMINATION IN THE CROWFOOT GRASS DACTYLOCTENIUM-AEGYPTIUM

KOTESWARI M V; MARY T N

Indian Botanical Reporter  Volume: 3   Issue: 1   Pages: 32-33   Published: 1984

19.   BIOSYSTEMATIC SURVEY OF THE DACTYLOCTENIUM-AEGYPTIUM COMPLEX GRAMINEAE IN PUNJAB PLAINS INDIA 2. LEAF EPIDERMIS

SHARMA M L; SALAM A

Research Bulletin of the Panjab University Science  Volume: 35   Issue: 3-4   Pages: 7-12   Published: 1984

20.   BIOSYSTEMATIC SURVEY OF THE DACTYLOCTENIUM-AEGYPTIUM COMPLEX GRAMINEAE IN PUNJAB PLAINS INDIA I. CYTOTAXONOMY

SHARMA M L; SALAM A

Research Bulletin of the Panjab University Science  Volume: 35   Issue: 1-2   Pages: 139-146   Published: 1984

21.   OCCURRENCE OF SCLEROTIUM-ROLFSII ON PREVIOUSLY UNREPORTED WEED HOSTS - ELEUSINE-INDICA, DACTYLOCTENIUM-AEGYPTIUM, CYPERUS-ESCULENTUS, AND CYPERUS-ROTUNDUS IN NORTH-CAROLINA

GURKIN, RS; JENKINS, SF

PHYTOPATHOLOGY  Volume: 73   Issue: 3   Pages: 501-501   Published: 1983

22.   OCCURRENCE OF SCLEROTIUM-ROLFSII ON PREVIOUSLY UNREPORTED WEED HOSTS ELEUSINE-INDICA DACTYLOCTENIUM-AEGYPTIUM CYPERUS-ESCULENTUS AND CYPERUS-ROTUNDUS IN NORTH-CAROLINA USA

GURKIN R S; JENKINS S F

Conference: ANNUAL MEETING OF THE AMERICAN PHYTOPATHOLOGICAL SOCIETY (SOUTHERN DIVISION), FEB. 6-9, 1983. PHYTOPATHOLOGY.

Phytopathology  Volume: 73   Issue: 3   Pages: 501   Published: 1983

23.   CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE ECOLOGY OF DACTYLOCTENIUM-AEGYPTIUM (L) P-BEAUV

SHARMA, BM; CHIVINGE, AO

JOURNAL OF RANGE MANAGEMENT  Volume: 35   Issue: 3   Pages: 326-331   Published: 1982

24.   CYTOLOGIC, MORPHOLOGIC AND CHEMOTAXONOMIC STUDIES IN DACTYLOCTENIUM-AEGYPTIUM (L) BEAUV COMPLEX

SACHDEVA, SK; KALS, R

PROCEEDINGS OF THE INDIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES-PLANT SCIENCES  Volume: 90   Issue: 3   Pages: 217-225   Published: 1981

25.   CRAZY TOP DISEASE ON DACTYLOCTENIUM-AEGYPTIUM

SIVARAMAKRISHNA, D; SULLIA, SB

NATIONAL ACADEMY SCIENCE LETTERS-INDIA  Volume: 1   Issue: 12   Pages: 436-&   Published: 1978

26.   REINFORCEMENT DESIGN IN CULMS OF DACTYLOCTENIUM-AEGYPTIUM

SIVARAMAKRISHNA, D

NATIONAL ACADEMY SCIENCE LETTERS-INDIA  Volume: 1   Issue: 1   Pages: 14-14   Published: 1978

27.   Fiche technique No.8. Famille des Graminees (= Poacees). Dactyloctenium aegyptium (L.) P. Beauv.

Technical data sheet No.8. Gramineae (= Poaceae). Dactylotenium aegyptium (L.) P. Beauv.

Naegele, A. F. G.

Naegele, A. F. G. : EMASAR Phase II. Volume 3. Wild fodder plants of dry tropical Africa. Technical information.: EMASAR Phase II. Volume 3. Plantes fourrageres spontanees de l'Afrique tropicale seche. Donnees techniques.  Pages: 185-203   Published: 1977

28.   GERMINATION BEHAVIOR OF GYNURA-CREPIDIOIDES BENTH, PORTULACA-OLERACEA L, AND DACTYLOCTINIUM-AEGYPTIUM (L) ASCHESS AND SCHWEIN

CANTORIA, M; VICENTA, M; GACUTAN, C

PLANT PHYSIOLOGY  Volume: 49   Supplement: S   Pages: 14-&   Published: 1972

29.   OCCURRENCE OF HELMINTHOSPORIUM-ROSTRATUM ON DACTYLOCTENIUM-AEGYPTIUM-M

MISRA A P; SRIVASTAVA M P

Indian Phytopathology  Volume: 22   Issue: 2   Pages: 254-255   Published: 1969

30.   ECOLOGY OF DACTYLOCTENIUM-AEGYPTIUM-M I WITH REFERENCE TO TOPOGRAPHIES AND EDAPHIC FACTORS ABSTRACT

GOSWAMI H K

Indian Science Congress Association Proceedings  Volume: 54   Issue: 3   Pages: 347   Published: 1967

31.   Ecological studies with special reference to reproductive capacity in relation to grazing of Dactyloc-tenium aegyptium Beauv

SANT, HARSHWARDHAN R.

PROC NAT INST SCI INDIA PT B BIOL SCI  Volume: 30   Issue: (1)   Pages: 36-46   Published: 1964

32.   Morphological studies in the Gramineae. 4. Embryology of Eleusine indica Gaertn. and Dactyloctenium aegyptium (Desf.) Beauv.

CHANDRA, N.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of India, Section B. Biological Sciences  Volume: 58   Issue: 3   Pages: 117-27   Published: 1963

33.   Morphological studies in the Gramineae. IV. Embryology of Eleusine indica Caertn. and Dactyloctenium aegyptium (Desf) Beauv

NARESH, CHANDRA

PROC INDIAN ACAD SCI SECT B  Volume: 58   Issue: (3)   Pages: 117-127   Published: 1963

34.   A short note on a case of double-digitate inflorescence in Dactyloctenium aegyptium Willd.

CHANDRASEKHARAN, S. N.; SOUNDAR-RAJ, D. D.

Current Science  Volume: 16   Issue: 386   Published: 1947