Plant descriptions ²

Stoloniferous sward-forming perennial with slender underground rhizomes; stolons slender, prostate; culms delicate, 4-15 cm high, up to 0,4 mm in diameter. Leaf- blades involute, filiform, 1-4 cm long, up to 1 mm wide, glaucous, glabrous or with scattered hairs ; ligule a short hyaline rim up to 0,3 mm long, ciliate on the edge. Racemes 1-3(-4), 0,7 - 1,5 cm long, in single whorl. Spikelets 2,5 mm long; glumes subequal, lanceolate in side view, 1-nerved; lemma lanceolate to narrowly ovate, sparsely ciliate on the keel; palea glabrous.

Elevation ²

Uncertain

Similar species ²

Syn. Cynodon poissonii ; Cynodon transvaalensis subsp. poissonii

Reference ²

W. D. CLAYTON, S.M. PHILLIPS & S.A.RENVOIZE., 1974. Gramineae. Flora of Tropical East Africa. R.M. POLHILL, B.A., Ph.D., F.L.S. 450 p.

Sources and Credits

1. (c) Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), https://collections.nmnh.si.edu/services/media.php?env=botany&irn=10128616
2. (c) Romer Rabarijaona, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)

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