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Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers.   (redirected from: Cynodon dactylon var. nipponicus Ohwi)
Family: Poaceae
[Capriola dactylon (L.) Kuntze, moreChloris gayana Kunth, Chloris paytensis Steud., Cynodon dactylon subsp. nipponicus (Ohwi) T.Koyama, Cynodon dactylon var. biflorus Merino, Cynodon dactylon var. nipponicus Ohwi, Cynodon linearis Willd., Digitaria linearis Cynodon dactylon, Fibichia umbellata Koeler, Fibichia umbellata var. biflora Beck, Panicum dactylon L., Paspalum dactylon (L.) Lam.]
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Japan Flora: Culms rather firm, 15-40 cm. long, from axils of long creeping, leafy stolons; leaf-blades pale green, rather flat or with involute margins, 5-8 cm. long, 1.5-4 mm. wide, short-linear, sparsely long-pilose especially near the very short ligule; inflorescence digitate; spikes 3-7, ascending to spreading, 2.5-5 cm. long, sessile; spikelets 2-3 mm. long, rather dense, appressed to the axis, pale green, sometimes with a pale reddish hue; glumes unequal, lanceolate, 1-nerved, acute, the first incurved and appressed to the lemma, about 1.5 mm. long, the second ascending, about 2 mm. long, slightly shorter than the lemma; lemmas ovate, folded, obtuse or mucronate, 2.5-3 mm. long, the keel slightly curved, appressed-pubescent; anthers 1-1.5 mm. long June-Aug. Sunny places; Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu, Shikoku; common. Widespread in all temperate and tropical regions.

var. nipponica Ohwi. A robust phase with spikes 5-10 cm. long; spikelets 3-3.5 mm. long. Hon­shu and westward; connected by intermediates with the typi­cal phase. 

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