Taxon: Cynodon transvaalensis Burtt Davy

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: R. P. Ellis, p.c.) – English
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: lawn/turf   (for lawns fide F TE Afr; Grass VarUSA)
  
• Gene sources: ornamental features   (fide Grass VarUSA)
  
• Weed   (fide Econ Pl Aust)
  

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Southern Africa: Lesotho; South Africa - Cape Province [n.-c.], Free State, KwaZulu-Natal, Transvaal [s.]

• naturalized elsewhere

• also cultivated

References:

• Alderson, J. & W. C. Sharp. 1995. Grass varieties in the United States, U.S.D.A. Agric. Handb. 170, rev. ed. [mentions].
• Ellis, R. P. 1997. pers. comm. [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. Agric. Handb. no. 505.
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa.
• 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.

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Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Cynodon transvaalensis.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Cynodon transvaalensis.

Check other web resources for Cynodon transvaalensis Burtt Davy:

• SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
• CNWG: Catalogue of New World Grasses Searchable Database
• World Grass Species-Descriptions: Morphological species description from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database 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.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.

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