| Family | Poaceae |
|---|---|
| Local Name | Alam; Damung-balang |
| Habit | HERB (Grass) |
| Habitat | Open areas including waste places and road sides |
| Special Notes | Tall, branches, glabrous, erect or ascending from creeping stolons, rooting at nodes. Leaf blades flat, linear |
| Ethnobotanical Uses | OTHERS: grains are used as bird feed, has little or no value for storage, useful as soil and sand binder; |
| Collected from | Palina, Kibungan, Benguet, Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR). |
| Collector(s) | Karen Faye P. Nava |
| Identification Verified By | Leonardo Legaspi Co-(2000-02-15)-(Dactyloctenium aegyptium (L.) Richt)-(n/a) |
