Dactyloctenium Willd.

4 species in Aust.; (1 native, 3 naturalized); all states and territories except Tas.

Spikelets with 2–7 florets, disarticulating above the glumes, compressed, sessile, crowded into 2 rows along the rhachis. Inflorescence digitate, with 2–10 branches. Glumes unequal. Rhachilla prolonged. Leaf blades scabrous, sometimes ciliate.