Species category

Revegetation or Rangeland, Turf

Common name

centipede grass

Diagnostic characters

Identification notes

GlumesGlume:
The pair of chaffy bracts that occur at the base of a grass spikelet, often completely enclosing it.
of a fertile sessile spikeletSpikelet:
One or more florets that are subtended by a pair of bracts called glumes. Spikelets are pedicellate if located on a pedicle and sessile if attached directly to the rachis. Often spikelets with single florets have remnants of a second floret, usually a lemma.
are smooth, glabrousGlabrous:
Lacking hairs or pubescence.
and broadly winged at the summit. Commercial seed is usually a hulled caryopsisCaryopsis:
The single-seeded fruit or grain of the grass family (Poaceae); the fruit wall (pericarp) is united with the seed coat (testa).
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Noxious weed seed categories

Not listed

AOSA examination list

Included

Nomenclature