Dactyloctenium aegyptium (L.) Willd.  

This species is accepted, and its native range is Tropical & Subtropical Old World. It is has environmental uses, as animal food, a poison and a medicine and for food.

[CPLC]
Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R. & Celis, M. (eds.). 2015. Catálogo de plantas y líquenes de Colombia. Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. http://catalogoplantasdecolombia.unal.edu.co

Distribution
Naturalizada y adventicia en Colombia; Alt. 0 - 3000 m.; Amazonia, Andes, Guayana y Serranía de La Macarena, Islas Caribeñas, Llanura del Caribe, Orinoquia, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Valle del Cauca, Valle del Magdalena.
Morphology General Habit
Hierba
Conservation;
No Evaluada

[FSOM]
M. Thulin et al. Flora of Somalia, Vol. 1-4 [updated 2008] https://plants.jstor.org/collection/FLOS

Morphology General Habit
Annual, often stoloniferous and mat-forming, up to 70(–100) cm high; leaves papillose-hispid, especially on the margins
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Inflorescence comprising (1–)3–9 linear to narrowly oblong racemes 1.2–6.5(–7.5) cm long, these ascending or radiating
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences Spikelets
Spikelets broadly ovate, 3.5–4.5 mm long; glumes subequal, 1.5–2.2 mm long, the upper with an awn from half as long to as long as the body; lemmas narrowly ovate in profile, 2.6–4 mm long, acute and with a stout cusp or mucro up to 1 mm long; anthers 0.25–0.8 mm long
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Grain transversely rugose.
Distribution
N1, 3; S1–3 tropical and warm temperate Old World.
Ecology
Altitude range 0–1800 m.
Vernacular
Hurbunle, sadeho (Somali)

[FTEA]
Gramineae, W. D. Clayton, S. M. Phillips & S. A. Renvoize. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1974

Morphology General Habit
Slender to moderately robust spreading 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.
Morphology Leaves
Leaf-blades flat, 3–25 cm. long, 2.5–7.5(–12) mm. wide, papillose-hispid especially along the margins.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Inflorescence composed of (1–)3–9 linear to narrowly oblong spikes 1.2–6.5 cm. long, ascending or often radiating horizontally from the top of the culm.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences Spikelets
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 1/2–2 times 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 unwinged; anthers 0.25–0.8 mm. long.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Grain ± 1 mm. long, broadly obovate to obtriangular in profile, transversely rugose.
Habitat
A widespread weed of open situations in grassland and open woodland, common by roadsides and on waste ground; sea-level to 2100 m.
Distribution
K1 K2 K3 K4 K5 K6 K7 P T1 T2 T3 T4 T5 T6 throughout Africawidely distributed in tropical and warm temperate regions of the Old World, introduced into America

[UNAL]
Bernal, R., G. Galeano, A. Rodríguez, H. Sarmiento y M. Gutiérrez. 2017. Nombres Comunes de las Plantas de Colombia. http://www.biovirtual.unal.edu.co/nombrescomunes

Vernacular
grama egipcia, mindaca, mindacá, paja tresdedos, tresdedos, yerba de Egipto

[GB]
Morphology General Habit
Annual; mat forming, or caespitose. Stolons present. Culms geniculately ascending, or decumbent; 5-70 cm long; rooting from lower nodes. Ligule a ciliolate membrane, or a ciliate membrane. Leaf-blades 3-25 cm long; 2.5-7.5 mm wide. Leaf-blade margins tuberculate-ciliate. Leaf-blade apex acuminate.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Inflorescence composed of racemes. Racemes 3-9; digitate; spreading, or ascending; unilateral; 1.2-6.5 cm long. Rhachis deciduous from axis; flattened; terminating in a barren extension; extension bristle-like. Spikelet packing broadside to rhachis; crowded; regular; 2 -rowed. Spikelets pectinate; solitary. Fertile spikelets sessile.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences Spikelets
Spikelets comprising 3-4 fertile florets; with diminished florets at the apex. Spikelets ovate; laterally compressed; 3.5-4.5 mm long; breaking up at maturity; disarticulating above glumes but not between florets.
Fertile
Spikelets comprising 3-4 fertile florets; with diminished florets at the apex. Spikelets ovate; laterally compressed; 3.5-4.5 mm long; breaking up at maturity; disarticulating above glumes but not between florets.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences Bracts Glume
Glumes persistent; dissimilar; shorter than spikelet. Lower glume ovate; 1.5-2.2 mm long; 1 length of upper glume; 1-keeled; 1 -veined. Lower glume primary vein scabrous. Lower glume lateral veins absent. Lower glume apex acute. Upper glume oblong; 1.5-2.2 mm long; 0.5-0.6 length of adjacent fertile lemma; membranous; 1-keeled; 1 -veined. Upper glume primary vein smooth. Upper glume lateral veins absent. Upper glume apex obtuse; awned; 1 -awned. Upper glume awn subapical; 0.8-4 mm long.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Florets
Fertile florets appressed to rhachilla. Fertile lemma gibbous; ovate in profile; 2.6-4 mm long; membranous; keeled; 3 -veined. Lemma midvein scaberulous. Lemma lateral veins obscure. Lemma apex acute, or cuspidate; muticous, or mucronate. Palea 1 length of lemma; 2 -veined. Palea keels wingless, or winged; narrowly winged. Apical sterile florets resembling fertile though underdeveloped.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
Anthers 3; 0.25-0.8 mm long.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Caryopsis with free soft pericarp; obovoid; 1 mm long; rugose.
Distribution
Europe: southeastern. Africa: north, Macaronesia, west tropical, west-central tropical, northeast tropical, east tropical, southern tropical, south, middle Atlantic ocean, and western Indian ocean. Asia-temperate: western Asia, Arabia, China, and eastern Asia. Asia-tropical: India, Indo-China, Malesia, and Papuasia. Australasia: Australia. Pacific: southwestern, south-central, northwestern, and north-central. North America: northwest USA, north-central USA, northeast USA, southwest USA, south-central USA, southeast USA, and Mexico. South America: Mesoamericana, Caribbean, northern South America, western South America, Brazil, and southern South America.
Reference
Eragrostideae. FTEA.
Diagnostic
Glume awn up to 2 length of body.

[FZ]
Gramineae, T. Cope. Flora Zambesiaca 10:2. 1999

Morphology General Habit
Slender to moderately robust spreading annual; culms up to 70(100) cm tall, usually geniculately ascending and rooting from the lower nodes, often shortly stoloniferous and mat-forming, less often erect; leaf laminas 3–25 cm × 2.5–7.5(12) mm, flat, papillose-hispid especially along the margins.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Racemes (1)3–9, 1.2–6.75 cm long, linear to narrowly oblong, ascending or radiating.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences Spikelets
Spikelets 3.5–4.5 mm long, broadly ovate, 3–4-flowered; glumes subequal, 1.5–2.2 mm long, the inferior lanceolate in profile with a thick scabrid keel, the superior elliptic to narrowly obovate in profile, the smooth keel extended into a stout divergent scabrid awn 0.5–2 times as long as the body; lemmas 2.6–4 mm long, narrowly ovate to ovate in profile, the keels 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.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Caryopsis c. 1 mm long, broadly obovate to obtriangular, transversely rugose.