Rank Species | Genus Cenchrus Higher classification Cenchrus | |
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Similar Cenchrus, Grasses, Brachiaria plantaginea, Eleusine indica, Digitaria insularis |
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.




References
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