Locally known as Damong-balang; Kurus-kurusan. A coarse, widely spreading, ascending grass up to 60 cm high, creeping and rooting, leaves; longer than wide, flattened margin, lanceolate, overlapping, sheaths loose, inflorescence; erect and ascending floral stems, digitate; 6 the most, stout, often purplish, sharply terminating in a point, the rachis excurrent,. spikelets; set at a right angle. numerous, densely crowded, spreading, fruits; ridged in a transverse manner, a caryopsis. Distributed in waste places, in drylands, roadsides through out the Philippines and the tropics. Dactyloctenium; Greek, "finger" and "little comb".