      
Taxon: Cenchrus biflorus Roxb.
Genus: Cenchrus
Family: Poaceae (alt. Gramineae) subfamily: Panicoideae tribe: Paniceae.
Nomen number: 9791
Place of publication: Fl. ind. 1:238. 1820
Name verified on: 07-Jan-1993 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 23-Aug-1994
Species priority site is: Plant Genetic Resources Conservation Unit, Griffin, GA (S9).
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- India sandbur (Source: Names Beetle
) – English
- capim-carrapicho (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
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Native:
- AFRICA
Northeast Tropical Africa: Chad; Eritrea; Ethiopia; Somalia; Sudan
East Tropical Africa: Kenya [e.]; Tanzania [incl. Zanzibar]
West-Central Tropical Africa: Zaire
West Tropical Africa: Benin; Burkina Faso; Gambia; Ghana; Guinea; Mali; Mauritania; Niger; Nigeria; Senegal
South Tropical Africa: Angola; Mozambique; Zambia; Zimbabwe
Southern Africa: Botswana; Namibia; South Africa - Limpopo
- ASIA-TEMPERATE
Arabian Peninsula: Yemen
- ASIA-TROPICAL
Indian Subcontinent: India; Pakistan
Naturalized: - widely naturalized paleotropic weed
Cultivated:
- ASIA-TROPICAL
Indian Subcontinent: India
- AUSTRALASIA
Australia: Australia [n.]
Other: - exact native range obscure
- PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource).
- Beetle, A. A.
1970. Recommended plant names. Univ. Wyoming Agr. Exp. Sta. Res. J. 31.
- Bor, N. L.
1960. The grasses of Burma, Ceylon, India, and Pakistan.
- CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland.
Documenta CIBA-GEIGY (Grass weeds 1. 1980, 2. 1981; Monocot weeds 3. 1982; Dicot weeds 1. 1988)
- Cufodontis, G.
1953–1972. Enumeratio plantarum aethiopiae: Spermatophyta.
- Exell, A. W. et al., eds.
1960–. Flora zambesiaca.
- FNA Editorial Committee.
1993–. Flora of North America.
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
- Germishuizen, G. & N. L. Meyer, eds.
2003. Plants of southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14.
- Gibbs-Russell, G. E. et al.
1990. Grasses of southern Africa. Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa vol. 58.
- Groth, D.
2005. pers. comm.
[re. Brazilian common names].
- Hanelt, P., ed.
2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6.
- Hedberg, I. & S. Edwards.
1989–. Flora of Ethiopia. (and Eritrea. 2000)
- Hitchcock, A. S.
1950. Manual of the grasses of the United States, ed. 2.
- Keay, R. W. J. & F. N. Hepper.
1953–1972. Flora of west tropical Africa, ed. 2.
- Lazarides, M. & B. Hince.
1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia.
- Matthew, K. M.
1983. The flora of the Tamilnadu Carnatic.
- Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds.
1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan.
- Turrill, W. B. et al., eds.
1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa.
- Wood, J. R. I.
1997. A handbook of the flora of Yemen.
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Synonyms:
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inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require
specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with
properly documented herbarium material.
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