ABSTRACT
Different photoperiodic responses have been reported for flowering in Cynodon Dactylon. Low-temperaure pretreatments are required for flowering initiation, or are able to advance flowering. Seed production usually is very sparse and the plants spread mainly by stolons and rhizomes. The glumes are narrow and membranous, slightly unequal, and shorter than the floret. The lemma is firm, laterally compressed, with a fringe of hairs on its keel, the narrow palea as long as the lemma. Low light intensity strongly inhibits growth and flowering in Bermuda grass. Plants growing under high light intensity flowered even when subjected to high night temperature, while those growing under lower light intensities flowered only at 12°Celsius night temperatures.
