Dactyloctenium aegyptium - Crowfoot Grass

❏ Binomial Name : Dactyloctenium aegyptium (L.) Willd.

❏ Synonym : Syntherisma aegyptiaca,Eleusine egyptia,Chloris prostrata 

❏ Family : Poaceae

❏ Common Name : Crowfoot Grass

❏ Tamil Name : Aricippul,Purakappul, Mutankali

❏ Hindi Name : Makra, Makri, Makaro, Kuri, Manchi

❏ IUCN status: Not Evaluated

Dactyloctenium aegyptium Botanical Description

Annuals. Culms 30-60 cm long, creeping or geniculately ascending, rooting at the nodes; nodes glabrous. Leaves 5-20 x 0.3-0.6 cm, linear, rounded or shallowly cordate at base, acuminate, margins at base ciliate; sheaths to 5 cm long, keeled; ligules ovate, fimbriate, membranous. Spikes 2-6, digitate, each 2-5 cm long, oblong. Spikelets sessile, 2-3.5 mm long, ovate or oblong, 3-4-flowered, laterally compressed, densely imbricate, in 2 rows. Lower glume 1.5-2 x 1-1.5 mm, boat-shaped or ovate-acute when spread, keeled; keel scabrid. Upper glume 1.5-2 x 1-1.5 mm, ovate-elliptic or obovate, aristate, keeled; keel scabrid; arista c. 1.5 mm long, geniculate. Lemmas 1.5-3 x 1-1.5 mm, ovate, aristate; arista c. 1 mm long. Palea 1-1.5 x 1 mm, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate. Stamens 3; anthers c. 0.5 mm long. Grain c. 1 mm long, obovate or triangular, transversely rugose. Fl. &Fr.: Throughout the year.

Dactyloctenium aegyptium Medicinal uses

❀ The whole plant is used in a decoction to remedy lumbago

❀ An infusion of the leaves, mixed with the seeds of Cajanus cajan, is used to accelerate childbirth

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