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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Cynodon

Hierarchical position of the Genus Cynodon

Regnum  Plantae common name: The plant kingdom       Divisio  Magnoliophyta Cronquist syn. Angiospermophyta / Anthophyta pub. Takht. & Zimmerm. ex Reveal, Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996. common name: angiosperms, flowering plants       Subdivisio  Magnoliophytina Frohne & U. Jensen ex Reveal pub. Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996. common name: Angiosperms       Classis  Liliopsida Brongn. pub. Enum. Pl. Mus. Paris: xv, 17. 12 Aug 1843. common name: Monocots       Subclassis  Commelinidae Takht. pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 171. Jan-Mar 1967. common name: Grasses, Sedges, Rushes       SuperOrdo  Juncanae Takht. pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 510. Jan-Mar 1967.       Ordo  Poales Small pub. Fl. S.E. U.S.: 48. 1903.       Familia  Poaceae (R. Br.) Barnh. pub. Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 22: 7. 15 Jan 1895, nom. cons. common name: Gramineae       Tribus  Cynodonteae Dumort. pub. Observ. Gramin. Belg.: 83. Jul-Sep 1824.       Genus  Cynodon Rich. ex Pers. pub. (1805) common name: Bermudagrass

Named members of the Genus Cynodon

1	Species  aethiopicus W.D. Clayton & Harlan common name: Ethiopian dogstooth grass
2	Species  bradleyi Stent common name: cynodon
3	Species  dactylon (L.) Pers. common name: Bermudagrass
4	Species  magennisii Hurcombe common name: Magennis' dogstooth grass
5	Species  nlemfuensis Vanderyst
	6    Varietas  nlemfuensis common name: African Bermudagrass 7    Varietas  robustus W.D. Clayton & Harlan common name: African Bermudagrass
8	Species  plectostachyus (K. Schum.) Pilger common name: stargrass
9	Species  transvaalensis Burtt-Davy common name: African dogstooth grass

Individual specimen entries are published in the sample database supplied with The Compleat Botanica for species or varieties of this supra-generic taxon.

Additional information is available in the commercial version of The Compleat Botanica software for species with this symbol.

For a description of the methodology followed in establishing this hierarchy see the note Nomenclature used in The Compleat Botanica.