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Taxon: Cynodon transvaalensis Burtt Davy

Genus:

Cynodon

Family:

Poaceae (alt.Gramineae)

Subfamily:

Chloridoideae

Tribe:

Cynodonteae

Subtribe:

Eleusininae

Nomen number:

12859

Place of publication:

Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1921:281. 1921

Link to protologue:

Name Verified on:

18-Dec-1992 by ARS Systematic Botanists.

Accessions:

0 (0 active, 0 available) in National Plant Germplasm System

Common names:

African Bermuda grass (Source: AH 505) - English
African dogtooth grass (Source: F NAmer) - English
Bermuda couch (Source: Aust Pl Common Names) - English
Florida grass (Source: Grass VarUSA) - English
Transvaal quick (Source: pers. comm.) - English

Economic Importance:

Environmental: lawn/turf (for lawns) lawn/turf
Weed:

Distributional Range:

Native

Africa

SOUTHERN AFRICA: Lesotho, South Africa [Cape Province (n.-c.), KwaZulu-Natal, Free State, Transvaal (s.)]

Cultivated

(also cult.)

Naturalized

(natzd. elsewhere)

References:

Alderson, J. & W. C. Sharp. 1995. Grass varieties in the United States, U.S.D.A. Agric. Handb. 170, rev. ed. CRC Press. Note: mentions
de Wet, J. M. J. & J. R. Harlan. 1970. Biosystematics of Cynodon L. C. Rich. (Gramineae). Taxon 19:567.
de Wet, J. M. J. & J. R. Harlan. 1971. South African species of Cynodon (Gramineae). J. S. African Bot. 37:55.
Ellis, R. P. 1997. pers. comm. Note: re. English common names
FNA Editorial Committee. 1993-. Flora of North America.
Gibbs-Russell, G. E. et al. 1990. Grasses of southern Africa. Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa vol. 58
Harlan, J. R. et al. 1970. A guide to the species of Cynodon (Gramineae). Bull. Oklahoma Agric. Exp. Sta. B-673:34.
Harlan, J. R. et al. 1970. Geographic distribution of the species of Cynodon L. C. Rich. (Gramineae). E. African Agric. Forest. J. 36:224.
Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening
Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia
Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
Terrell, E. E. et al. 1986. Agricultural Handbook no. 505
Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952-. Flora of tropical East Africa.

Check other web resources for Cynodon transvaalensis Burtt Davy :

SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
World Grass Species-Descriptions: Morphological species description from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Databas of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
PubAg: USDA's National Agricultural Library database of full-text journal articles and citations on the agricultural sciences.

Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2024. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN-Taxonomy).
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL: http://gringlobal.iita.org/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=12859. Accessed 5 July 2024.