Dactyloctenium Willd.

Native to:

Afghanistan, Aldabra, Algeria, Angola, Assam, Bangladesh, Benin, Borneo, Botswana, Burkina, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Caprivi Strip, Central African Republic, Chad, Chagos Archipelago, China South-Central, China Southeast, Comoros, Congo, Djibouti, DR Congo, East Aegean Is., East Himalaya, Egypt, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Free State, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Gulf States, Hainan, India, Iran, Iraq, Ivory Coast, Jawa, Kazan-retto, Kenya, Kuwait, KwaZulu-Natal, Laccadive Is., Laos, Lebanon-Syria, Lesser Sunda Is., Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaya, Maldives, Mali, Maluku, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Mozambique Channel Is., Myanmar, Namibia, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, New Guinea, New South Wales, Niger, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Northern Territory, Ogasawara-shoto, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Philippines, Queensland, Rodrigues, Rwanda, Réunion, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Sinai, Socotra, Somalia, South Australia, South China Sea, Sri Lanka, Sudan-South Sudan, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tunisia, Türkiye, Uganda, Victoria, Vietnam, West Himalaya, Western Australia, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Introduced into:

Alabama, Andaman Is., Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Arizona, Arkansas, Aruba, Ascension, Bahamas, Baleares, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, California, Cape Verde, Caroline Is., Cayman Is., Central American Pacific Is., Christmas I., Cocos (Keeling) Is., Colombia, Colorado, Cook Is., Costa Rica, Cuba, Cyprus, Czechia-Slovakia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Fiji, Florida, French Guiana, Galápagos, Georgia, Germany, Gilbert Is., Great Britain, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Hawaii, Honduras, Illinois, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Korea, Kriti, Leeward Is., Line Is., Louisiana, Madeira, Maine, Marcus I., Marianas, Marquesas, Marshall Is., Maryland, Massachusetts, Mexican Pacific Is., Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mississippi, Nauru, Netherlands Antilles, New Caledonia, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Nicaragua, Nicobar Is., North Carolina, Ohio, Panamá, Paraguay, Pennsylvania, Peru, Puerto Rico, Samoa, Sicilia, Society Is., Solomon Is., South Carolina, Southwest Caribbean, Spain, St.Helena, Suriname, Tennessee, Texas, Tonga, Trinidad-Tobago, Tuamotu, Tubuai Is., Turks-Caicos Is., Uruguay, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Virginia, Wake I., Wallis-Futuna Is., Windward Is.

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

• Govaerts, R.H.A. (2011). World checklist of selected plant families published update Facilitated by the Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
• Menjívar Cruz, J.E., R.M. Baldini, G. Davidse & P.M. Peterson (2021). El Salvador grasses: An updated catalogue and nomenclator. Phytoneuron 2021-22: 1-131.

Flora of West Tropical Africa

• Enum. Hort. Berol. 1029 (1809).

Flora Zambesiaca

• Enum. Pl.: 1029 (1809).

Flora of Somalia

• Flora Somalia, Vol 4, (1995) Author: by T. A. Cope [updated by M. Thulin 2008]

Flora of Tropical East Africa

• Enum. Hort. Berol.: 1029 (1809)