Cynodon incompletus

Nees
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 25. Treatment on page 240.

Plants stoloniferous, not rhizomatous. Culms 5-30 cm. Sheaths glabrous; ligules membranous; blades 1.5-6 cm long, 2-4 mm wide, glabrous or pubescent. Panicles with 2-6 branches; branches 2-5 cm, in a single whorl, axes flattened. Spikelets 2-3 mm, narrowly to broadly ovate. Glumes 1.7-2.1 mm, exceeded by the florets; lemmas 2.2-2.6 mm, keels winged and pubescent, mar¬gins glabrous. 2n = 18, 36.

Discussion

Cynodon incompletus is native to southern Africa. A hybrid between the two varieties identified below, Cynodon xbradleyi Stent, is used as a lawn grass in North America (de Wet and Harlan 1970).

1. Blades glabrous or sparsely hirsute; spikelets 2.5-3 mm long, narrowly ovate var. incompletus 1. Blades densely hirsute; spikelets 2-2.5 mm long, broadly ovate var. hirsutus

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.

"decumbent" is not a number.

... more about "Cynodon incompletus"
muticous +  and mucronate +
Mary E. Barkworth +
1 (?) +  and 3 (?) +
multiple +, , +  and single +
flattened +
keeled +  and rounded +
pseudopetiolate +  and branching +
not fused +
intravaginal +, extravaginal +, branching +  and basal +
swelling +
membranous +
disarticulating +
1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br /> (6 cm60 mm <br />0.06 m <br />) +
pubescent +  and glabrous +
involute +  and convolute +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br />) +
spikelike +
2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br /> (5 cm50 mm <br />0.05 m <br />) +
triangular +  and dome--shaped +
sometimes longer +
membranous +
ascending +  and erect +
5 cm50 mm <br />0.05 m <br /> (30 cm300 mm <br />0.3 m <br />) +
not woody +
Conn. +, N.J. +, N.Y. +, Wash. +, Va. +, Del. +, D.C +, W.Va. +, Pacific Islands (Hawaii) +, Fla. +, N.H. +, Puerto Rico +, N.Mex. +, Tex. +, La. +, B.C. +, Md. +, Nebr. +, Tenn. +, N.C. +, S.C. +, Pa. +, Nev. +, Colo. +, Idaho +, Mont. +, Oreg. +, Virgin Islands +, Calif. +, Ala. +, Ark. +, Ill. +, Ga. +, Ind. +, Iowa +, Ariz. +, Kans. +, Okla. +, Mass. +, Ohio +, Utah +, Mo. +, Mich. +, Miss. +  and Ky. +
not waisted +
capillary +
pistillate +  and staminate +
sometimes longer +
bisexual +  and fertile +
round +  and compressed +
reduced +
shorter or longer +
subtending +
muticous +  and keeled +
0.17 cm1.7 mm <br />0.0017 m <br /> (0.21 cm2.1 mm <br />0.0021 m <br />) +
membranous +
uncinate +
subdigitate +  and digitate +
paniculate +  and racemose +
hollow +  and solid +
glabrous +  and pubescent +
not absent +
0.22 cm2.2 mm <br />0.0022 m <br /> (0.26 cm2.6 mm <br />0.0026 m <br />) +
membranous +  and cartilaginous +
sometimes longer +
membranous +
inconspicuous +
concealed +  and prominent +
2 +  and 1 +
2-keeled +
dry +  and fleshy +
spikelike +
1 +  and 60 +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br />) +
1 +  and 3 +
compound +  and simple +
Gramineae +
Cynodon incompletus +
species +
membranous +
7 (?) +  and 13 (?) +
not rhizomatous +  and stoloniferous +
aquatic +  and terrestrial +
dioecious +, monoecious +  and synoecious +