Cynodon dactylon
(L.) Pers. CouchPerennial spreading by tough, wiry stolons and rhizomes, culms erect, mostly to 30 cm high (although plants occasionally ascending through other vegetation to 1 m high or more). Leaves hairy about the ligule, occasionally glaucous; blade flat or somewhat channelled, blunt-tipped, to 15 cm long and 4 mm wide, smooth to scabrous; ligule to c. 0.5 mm long. Inflorescence usually purplish, with 2–6 spikes, these widely-spreading at maturity, 2–6 cm long. Spikelets appressed to axis, closely overlapping, 1.5–3 mm long; glumes narrow, acute, 1–2.2 mm long; lemma strongly compressed, obliquely ovate, acute, glabrous or hairy along the keel; palea subequal to lemma.
LoM, MuM, Wim, GleP, VVP, VRiv, MSB, RobP, MuF, GipP, OtP, WaP, Gold, CVU, GGr, DunT, NIS, EGL, EGU, WPro, HSF, HNF, OtR, Strz, HFE, VAlp.
2 varieties occur in Victoria.
Walsh, N.G. (1994). Poaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 2, Ferns and Allied Plants, Conifers and Monocotyledons, pp. 356–627. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
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