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FIGURE 73.—Dactyloctenium aegyptium. Plant, X 14; spikelet, fioret, and seed (without pericarp), X 5 
(Small and Heller 378). 
Culms compressed, spreading with ascending ends, rooting at the 
nodes, branching, commonly forming mats, usually 20 to 40 cm long; 
blades flat, ciliate; spikes 1 to 5 cm long (fig. 73). 
