Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations:

(≡ homotypic synonym, = heterotypic synonym, - autonym, I invalid designation)

• Basionym: Cynosurus aegyptius L.
• (=) Eleusine aegyptia (L.) Forsyth f.

Common names:

• coast button grass  (Source: Pl Res SEAs) - English
• comb fringe grass  (Source: pers. comm.) - English
• crowfoot grass  (Source: Dict Rehm) - English
• duck grass  (Source: Grass SAfr) - English
• Durban crowfoot  (Source: F NAmer) - English
• finger comb grass  (Source: pers. comm.) - English
• finger grass  (Source: Aust Pl Common Names) - English
• na'eem el-saleeb  (Source: F Egypt) - Arabic
• rigl'al'harbaya  (Source: Weeds Saudi Arabia) - Arabic
• makri  (Source: Dict Rehm) - India
• estrela  (Source: pers. comm.) - Portuguese (Brazil)
• grama-de-dedo-egípcia  (Source: pers. comm.) - Portuguese (Brazil)
• grama-egípcia  (Source: pers. comm.) - Portuguese (Brazil)
• mão-de-sapo  (Source: pers. comm.) - Portuguese (Brazil)
• três-dedos  (Source: pers. comm.) - Portuguese (Brazil)
• knapphirs  (Source: Kulturvaxtdatabas) - Swedish

Economic Importance:

• Animal food: fodder; forage
• Weed: potential seed contaminant

Distributional Range:

Native

Africa

• MACARONESIA: Cape Verde, Portugal [Madeira Islands]
• NORTHERN AFRICA: Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia
• NORTHEAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen [Socotra]
• EAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Kenya, Tanzania (incl. Pemba, Zanzibar), Uganda
• WEST-CENTRAL TROPICAL AFRICA: Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea (incl. Bioko)
• WEST TROPICAL AFRICA: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cote D'Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo
• SOUTH TROPICAL AFRICA: Angola, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe
• SOUTHERN AFRICA: Botswana, Eswatini, Namibia, South Africa [Cape Province, KwaZulu-Natal, Transvaal]
• WESTERN INDIAN OCEAN: Madagascar, Mauritius, Reunion, Seychelles

Asia-Temperate

• ARABIAN PENINSULA: Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
• WESTERN ASIA: Afghanistan, Israel, Lebanon, Turkey (s.)
• CHINA: China [Zhejiang Sheng, Fujian Sheng, Guangdong Sheng, Guizhou Sheng, Yunnan Sheng, Hainan Sheng]

Asia-Tropical

• INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
• INDO-CHINA: Myanmar
• MALESIA: Malaysia, Philippines


Naturalized

Europe

• SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE: Italy
• SOUTHWESTERN EUROPE: Spain

Northern America

• SOUTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia]
• SOUTHWESTERN U.S.A.: United States [California]
• Mexico

Southern America

• CENTRAL AMERICA: Belize
• BRAZIL: Brazil [Ceará, Espírito Santo, Maranhão, Mato Grosso do Sul, Pará, Rio de Janeiro, Amapá]
• WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA: Colombia
• SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: Argentina

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National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL: http://gringlobal.iita.org/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=13133. Accessed 3 July 2024.