Cynodon

Genus

Bryophytes > Dicranales > Ditrichaceae

Characteristics

Spikelets 1-flowered, with or without a rhachilla extension (this very rarely bearing a minute vestigial floret), strongly laterally compressed, sessile, alternate in 2 rows on a tough axis, tardily disarticulating above the glumes; glumes subequal, membranous, shorter than the floret, 1-nerved (rarely the superior 3-nerved); lemma firmly membranous, keeled, acute or slightly emarginate, glabrous or pilose along the keel and sometimes also on the lateral nerves, awnless.
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Inflorescence of digitate 1-sided racemes or these sometimes borne in 2 or more closely spaced whorls, the spikelets borne on a flat or semiterete (crescentic in section) rhachis.
Caryopsis ellipsoid, laterally compressed.
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LSID 0
WFO ID wfo-4000010410
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Synonyms

Cynodon

Lower taxons

Cynodon flexicaulis Cynodon inclinatus