Vascular Plants
Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)
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Poaceae Barnhart
Cynodon dactylon (Pers. , legitimate , scientific
Persoon, C.H. (1805) , Synopsis plantarum, seu enchiridium botanicum, complectens enumerationem systematicam specierum 1
85
[comb. nov.]
basionym:
Panicum dactylon L. legitimate
Brown, R. (27 March 1810) , Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805
187
[secondary reference]
Mueller, F.J.H. von (20 October 1853) , First general report of the Government Botanist on the vegetation of the colony. Victoria - Parliamentary Papers- Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly
21
[secondary reference]
cited as "Cynodon dactylon Richard".
Bailey, F.M. (1877) , Inquiry for seeds of grasses and other fodder plants with a list of the grasses of Queensland
10
[secondary reference]
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882) , Systematic Census of Australian Plants
134
[secondary reference]
Bailey, F.M. (1888) , A few Queensland grasses
11
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Panicum dactylon L. legitimate
common name:
Durban Grass [n/a]
common name:
Bermuda Grass [n/a]
common name:
Common Couch Grass
[n/a]
Turner, F. (1890) , A Census of the Grasses of New South Wales, together with a popular description of each species
10
[secondary reference]
common name:
Bermuda grass [n/a]
common name:
Doub grass [n/a]
common name:
Couch grass [n/a]
Rodway, L. (1903) , The Tasmanian Flora
268
[secondary reference]
Bailey, F.M. (1913) , Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants
627
[secondary reference]
common name:
Common Couch [n/a]
Domin, K. (1915) , Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 20(85)
365
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Panicum dactylon L. legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Digitaria stolonifera Schrad. legitimate
Black, J.M. (1922) , Cyatheaceae - Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia 1
83
[secondary reference]
common name:
Couch-grass [n/a]
Gardner, C.A. (1930) , Part I. Pteridophyta-Proteaceae. Enumeratio Plantarum Australiae Occidentalis
10
[secondary reference]
Black, J.M. (1943) , Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1
130, Fig. 172
[secondary reference]
common name:
Couch-grass [n/a]
Gardner, C.A. (1952) , Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1)
216
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Panicum dactylon L. legitimate
Specht, R.L. in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (August 1958) , The Gymnospermae and Angiospermae collected on the Arnhem Land Expedition. Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land No. 3 Botany and Plant Ecology
197
[secondary reference]
Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962) , Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains
542
[secondary reference]
common name:
Couch [n/a]
Chippendale, G.M. & Murray, L.R. (1963) , Poisonous Plants of the Northern Territory
27
[secondary reference]
common name:
Couch Grass [n/a]
Lazarides, M. (1972) , A revision of Australian Chlorideae (Gramineae). Australian Journal of Botany Supplementary Series 5
39
[secondary reference]
Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972) , Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4)
220
[secondary reference]
Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981) , Plants of Western New South Wales
78, 79
[secondary reference]
common name:
Devil Grass [n/a]
common name:
Star Grass [n/a]
common name:
Creeping Finger Grass [n/a]
common name:
Indian Daub Grass [n/a]
common name:
Bermuda Grass [n/a]
common name:
Indian Couch [n/a]
common name:
Swamp Couch [n/a]
common name:
Green Couch [n/a]
common name:
Common Couch [n/a]
common name:
Couch Grass [n/a]
Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981) , Plants of New South Wales
40
[secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym:
Cynodon dactylon var. pulchellus Benth. legitimate
Lazarides, M. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981) , Gramineae (Poaceae). Flora of Central Australia
466, Fig. 592
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Panicum dactylon L. legitimate
common name:
Couch grass [n/a]
Green, J.W. (1985) , Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2
32
[secondary reference]
Gray, M. & Michael, P.W. (1986) , List of plants collected at the old Flemington Saleyards, Sydney, New South Wales. Plant Protection Quarterly 1(4)
141
[secondary reference]
common name:
Couch [n/a]
Bennett, E.M. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987) , Poaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 2
949-950
[secondary reference]
common name:
Couch [n/a]
Dunlop, C.R. (1987) , Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26
61
[secondary reference]
Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989) , Poaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3
157, 193, Fig. 25A
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Panicum dactylon L. legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Cynodon dactylon var. pulchellus Benth. legitimate
common name:
Bermuda Grass [n/a]
common name:
Green Couch [n/a]
common name:
Couch [n/a]
Lazarides, M., Quinn, F. & Palmer, J. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992) , Cynodon. Flora of the Kimberley Region
1144
[secondary reference]
common name:
Couch [n/a]
Du Puy, D.J., Telford, I.R.H. & Edgar, E. (1993) , Poaceae. Flora of Australia 50
481
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Panicum dactylon L. legitimate
common name:
Couch Grass [n/a]
common name:
Bermuda Grass [n/a]
Jacobs, S.W.L. & Hastings, S.M. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993) , Cynodon. Flora of New South Wales 4
522, pl. 29
[secondary reference]
common name:
Bermuda Grass [n/a]
common name:
Couch [n/a]
Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994) , Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49
479
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Panicum dactylon L. legitimate
common name:
Couch [n/a]
Hyland, B.P.M., Gray, B. & Elick, R.W. in Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (1994) , Appendix I: Provisional Species List. Fruits of the Rainforest
310
[secondary reference]
Morris, D.I. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994) , Poaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4B
330, Fig. 111
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Panicum dactylon L. legitimate
common name:
Doob [n/a]
common name:
Couch [n/a]
Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994) , Poaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2
578
[secondary reference]
common name:
Couch [n/a]
Williams, D.G. (1994) , Vegetation and flora of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands. Atoll Research Bulletin 404
25
[secondary reference]
common name:
Couch [n/a]
Kenneally, K.F., Edinger, D.C. & Willing, T. (1996) , Broome and Beyond. Plants and people of the Dampier Peninsula, Kimberley, Western Australia
217
[secondary reference]
common name:
Couch [n/a]
Short, P.S. in Cowie, I.D., Short, P.S. & Osterkamp Madsen, M. (2000) , Poaceae. Floodplain Flora. A flora of the coastal floodplains of the Northern Territory, Australia
288, Fig. 69
[secondary reference]
common name:
Couch [n/a]
common name:
Bermuda Grass [n/a]
Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002) , Flora of the South West 1
409
[secondary reference]
common name:
Couch [n/a]
Nightingale, M.E., Lazarides, M. & Weiller, C.M. in Mallett, K. (ed.) (2005) , Cynodon. Flora of Australia 44B
306
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Panicum dactylon L. legitimate
common name:
Couch [n/a]
APC Comment:
Infraspecific taxa not recognised in WA, NSW and Island territories.
APC Dist.:
WA (naturalised), CoI (naturalised), ChI (naturalised), NT (naturalised), SA (native and naturalised), Qld, CSI (naturalised), NSW (native and naturalised), LHI (naturalised), NI (naturalised), ACT (naturalised), Vic (native and naturalised), Tas (naturalised)
Jacobs, S.W.L., Whalley, R.D.B. & Wheeler, D.J.B. (2008) , Grasses of New South Wales Edn. 4
192 (fig.)
[secondary reference]
common name:
Bermudagrass
[n/a]
common name:
Common Couch [n/a]
Barrett, Russell & Tay, Eng Pin (2016) , Perth Plants: a Field Guide to the Bushland and Coastal Flora of Kings Park and Bold Park Edn. 2
374-375, photos 11-15
[secondary reference]
common name:
Couch [n/a]
