Taxon: Cenchrus longispinus (Hack.) Fernald

A declared aquatic or terrestrial noxious weed and/or noxious-weed seed in these U.S. states (see state noxious weed lists), with links to state information or web documents:

CA*°, CO°, WA*, WY°.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

Common names:

• capim-carrapicho   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005)
  
• long-spine sandbur   (Source: State Noxweed Seed )
  
• mat sandbur   (Source: F NAmer )
  
• mat sandbur grass   (Source: Noxious Weed List-CA)
  

Economic importance:

• Weed: also potential seed contaminant   (common in the U.S.A. fide Atlas WWeed)
  

More:

View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

Native: (links to other web resources are provided for some distributions)

• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Eastern Canada: Canada - Ontario, Quebec
  Western Canada: Canada - British Columbia
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Wisconsin
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - New Mexico, Texas
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah
  Mexico
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Northern South America: Venezuela
  Southern South America: Argentina - Corrientes, Entre Rios, La Rioja, Salta

Other:

• naturalized elsewhere

References:

• Beetle, A. A. 1977. Noteworthy grasses from Mexico V. Phytologia 37:338.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Hitchcock, A. S. 1950. Manual of the grasses of the United States, ed. 2. (Grass US) [mentions under C. pauciflorus].
• Jones, G. N. & G. D. Fuller. 1955. Vascular plants of Illinois. (F IllJones) [= C. pauciflorus].
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. (L US Can ed2)
• Seed Regulatory and Testing Branch, Agricultural Marketing Service, U.S.D.A. 1999. State noxious-weed seed requirements recognized in the administration of the Federal Seed Act. (State Noxweed Seed)
• Terrell, E. E. et al. 1986. Agric. Handb. no. 505. (AH 505)
• Zuloaga, F. O. et al. 1994. Catalogo de la familia Poaceae en la Republica Argentina. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 47. (L Grass Argent)
• Zuloaga, F. O. et al. 2003. Catalogue of New World grasses (Poaceae): III. Subfamilies Panicoideae, Aristidoideae, Arundinoideae, and Danthonioideae. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 46:148.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Cenchrus longispinus.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Cenchrus longispinus. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Check other databases for Cenchrus longispinus (Hack.) Fernald:

• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• CNWG: Catalogue of New World Grasses Searchable Database
• Grass Manual on the Web: Manual of Grasses for North America North of Mexico
• World Grass Species-Descriptions: Morphological species description from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Check other databases for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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Cite as:
USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?103625 (22 November 2009)

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