''Cynodon nlemfuensis'', the African Bermuda-grass, is a species of grass, genus ''

Cynodon ''Cynodon'' is a genus of plants in the grass family. It is native to warm temperate to tropical regions of the Old World, as well as being cultivated and naturalized in the New World and on many oceanic islands. The genus name comes from G ...

'', family Poaceae. It is native to Tropical Africa except West Africa, and widely introduced as a

forage Forage is a plant material (mainly plant leaves and stems) eaten by grazing livestock. Historically, the term ''forage'' has meant only plants eaten by the animals directly as pasture, crop residue, or immature cereal crops, but it is also us ...

elsewhere; Hawaii, Texas, Florida, Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, the Galápagos, South America, western and southern Africa, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, the Philippines and Australia. It is

stoloniferous In biology, stolons (from Latin '' stolō'', genitive ''stolōnis'' – "branch"), also known as runners, are horizontal connections between organisms. They may be part of the organism, or of its skeleton; typically, animal stolons are external s ...

, and not rhizomatous.

Subtaxa

The following varieties are accepted: *''Cynodon nlemfuensis'' var. ''nlemfuensis'' *''Cynodon nlemfuensis'' var. ''robustus'' Clayton & J.R.Harlan

References

Chloridoideae Forages Flora of Northeast Tropical Africa Flora of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Flora of Rwanda Flora of Burundi Flora of East Tropical Africa Flora of South Tropical Africa Plants described in 1922 {{Chloridoideae-stub