Cynodon barberi

Description

HABIT Perennial; mat forming. Rhizomes absent. Stolons present; with alternating elongated and bunched internodes. Basal innovations flabellate. Culms geniculately ascending; 25-40 cm long; rooting from lower nodes. Culm-nodes glabrous. Leaf-sheaths 1-2.5 cm long; keeled. Ligule a ciliolate membrane. Leaf-blades linear, or lanceolate; 1.5-4.6 cm long; 3-4 mm wide. Leaf-blade surface glabrous, or hispid; sparsely hairy; hairy adaxially. Leaf-blade margins scaberulous. Leaf-blade apex acute.