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Cenchrus echinatus

Cenchrus echinatus
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Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
(unranked): Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Genus: Cenchrus
Species: C. echinatus
Binomial name
Cenchrus echinatus
L.

Cenchrus echinatus is a species of grass known by the common names southern sandbur,spiny sandbur,southern sandspur, and in Australia, Mossman River grass. It is native to North and South America.

It is a clump-forming annual grass growing up to 80 cm tall. The leaves occur with or without hairs and measure up to 12 mm wide. The ligule is a fringe of hairs. The grass has barbed burrs up 4–10 mm long.

In Australia it forms an invasive weed in coastal situations.



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