Family: Poaceae
Cynodon dactylon
Citation:
Pers., Syn. Pl. 1:85 (1805).
Synonymy: Panicum dactylon L., Sp. Pl. 58 (1753).
Common name: Couch-grass, Bermuda grass.
Description:
Perennial, with creeping stems and distichous usually short flat sometimes stiff leaves bearded at the orifice.
Spikes linear, 2-5 cm long, turning purplish or reddish-brown, 2-6, digitate at the top of the culm; lemma boat-shaped, ciliolate on the keel, c. 2.5 mm long and nearly twice as long as the 2 glumes.
Published illustration:
Burbidge (1970) Australian grasses 3:pl. 75; Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 78.
Distribution:
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Cosmopolitan and widespread in Australia.
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Conservation status:
naturalised
Flowering time: throughout the year.
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SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia
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Biology:
No text
Uses:
A very common lawn-grass.
Author:
Not yet available
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