The Jepson Manual: Higher Plants of California

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Names are linked to treatments from the Manual


Key to CYNODON

N.B.: couplets are linked, e.g., 1. is linked to 1'.

  1. Inflorescence branches 2, generally 1–2 cm
 C. transvaalensis
  1' Inflorescence branches 3–20, generally 3–8 cm
 
    2. Rhizomes present; glumes lanceolate, 1/4–1/2 × spikelet length; palea keels glabrous
 C. dactylon
    2' Rhizomes 0: glumes deltate, generally < 1/5–1/4 × spikelet length; palea keels hairy
 C. plectostachyus

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