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Cenchrus echinatus L.

Synonyms

Cenchrus brevisetus, Cenchrus cavanillesii, Cenchrus crinitus, Cenchrus hillebrandianus, Cenchrus insularis, Cenchrus lechleri, Cenchrus macrocarpus, Cenchrus pungens, Panicastrella muricata

Common names

Mossman River grass, Southern sandbur grass, Spiny sandbur

Extract from Wikipedia article

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.[+]

Spike of southern sandbur grass (Cenchrus echinatus) near Al Sham Street in West Bay. Doha, Qatar, May 5, 2014

Southern sandbur grass (Cenchrus echinatus) near Al Istiqlal Street in West Bay. Doha, Qatar, May 5, 2014

Spikelet of southern sandbur grass (Cenchrus echinatus) on Al Muhandiseen Street near West Bay. Doha, Qatar, May 6, 2014

Close up of a spikelet of southern sandbur grass (Cenchrus echinatus) on Al Muhandiseen Street near West Bay. Doha, Qatar, May 6, 2014

Southern sandbur grass (Cenchrus echinatus) taken from Al Sham Street in West Bay. Doha, Qatar, February 19, 2015
Al Sham Street, Doha, Qatar

Southern sandbur grass (Cenchrus echinatus) taken from Makkah Street in Al Luqta area. Doha, Qatar, March 15, 2016

Links

• Flora of Qatar.
• Unknown plants or plants without names.
• Duplicate and extra pictures of plants.
• Earlier version of collection of plants.
• Other collections of pictures from Qatar: Lizards of Qatar, Cats of Qatar, Camels of Qatar, and Fish of Qatar.
• Picture archives.
• Home page of A. Sergeev.

Outside links

• Cenchrus echinatus, Wikipedia article
• Cenchrus echinatus from www.catalogueoflife.org
• Ekhlas M. M. Abdel Bary, The Flora of Qatar, Volume I: The Dicotyledons. Doha 2012
• Flora of Qatar, Volume II: The Monocotyledons
• Illustrated Checklist of the Flora of Qatar. John Norton et al. 2009
• Qatar eNature. Flora
• Ali Al-Rawi, Flowering plants of Kuwait, 1985
• Plants of Kuwait
• Flora of Saudi Arabia, Al-Qassim Region
• Flora of Eastern Saudi Arabia by Rain and Dust at Flickr
• Plants of South-Western Morocco
• Pictures from Qatar (Flickr/cpmkutty)
• Arabian plants by Gary Brown
• Flora of Israel

How the web page was created

• A list of plants with their common names was written using online sources and books.
• Web pages were written by a program consisting of several scripts.
• Full names, synonyms, and classification of plants were found online from catalogueoflife.org and theplantlist.org using a script.
• Pictures of plants were selected from a database using a script.
• This web page was written using a script.

Acknowledgements

QNHG (Qatar Natural History Group) and associated people, for a possibility to participate in their field excursions and to learn about local nature.