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Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers.

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Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers., Syn. Pl. [Persoon] 1, 85 (1805)
Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers.

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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(L.) Pers.
L.
Pers.
1805
85
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species
Cynodon dactylon

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dactylon

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Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers.

Mat-forming, green or glaucous, 10-55 cm, with long, scaly rhizomes and long-creeping, much-branched, strong, wiry stolons rooting and tufted at nodes. Leaf-sheath chartaceous, light green to straw-coloured, ± keeled. Ligule 0.1-0.2 mm, truncate, ciliate. Collar hairs 1-2 mm. Leaf-blade 1.6-9 cm × 1-3 mm, sometimes slightly wider, abaxially glabrous or with scattered hairs, adaxially finely ribbed, papillose to scabrid on ribs, with row of hairs at base to 2 mm, midrib scabrid near blunt tip. Culm 10-50 cm, erect from geniculate base, internodes glabrous. Racemes (3)-4-6-(7), 1.5-6 cm × 1-3 mm, erect to spreading; rachis 3-angled, short-scabrid on angles, pubescent at base, bearing scarcely pedicelled imbricate spikelets in 2 secund rows. Spikelets 2-2.5 mm, green or purplish. Glumes 1-2 mm, reflexed from rachis at maturity, membranous, narrow-lanceolate, keel scabrid. Lemma = spikelet, curved to the ± hooded, shortly mucronate apex, glabrous, keel and sometimes margins with short hairs. Palea keels minutely scabrid, interkeel glabrous. Anthers 1-1.5 mm. Gynoecium: ovary 0.3-0.5 mm; stigma-styles 1-1.2 mm. Caryopsis c. 1 × 0.5 mm.

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Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers.
Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers.
Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers.
Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers.
Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers.
Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers.
Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers.
Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers.

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Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers.
Australia
Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers.
Chile
Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers.
Cook Islands
Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers.
Cook Islands
Penrhyn
Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers.
Cook Islands
Rakahanga
Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers.
Cook Islands
Rarotonga
Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers.
Fiji
Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers.
French Polynesia
Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers.
Nepal
Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers.
New Zealand
Gisborne Land District
Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers.
New Zealand
Hawke's Bay Land District
Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers.
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers.
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers.
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers.
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers.
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers.
New Zealand
Taranaki Land District
Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers.
New Zealand
Westland Land District
Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers.
Niue
Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers.
Norfolk Island
Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers.
Samoa
Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers.
Tonga
Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers.
United Kingdom
Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers.
United States

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34a22877-d35e-4c1b-bbcc-fbbc22ff0aec
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1 January 2000
7 March 2007
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