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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Cenchrus

Hierarchical position of the Genus Cenchrus

Regnum  Plantae common name: The plant kingdom       Divisio  Magnoliophyta Cronquist syn. Angiospermophyta / Anthophyta pub. Takht. & Zimmerm. ex Reveal, Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996. common name: angiosperms, flowering plants       Subdivisio  Magnoliophytina Frohne & U. Jensen ex Reveal pub. Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996. common name: Angiosperms       Classis  Liliopsida Brongn. pub. Enum. Pl. Mus. Paris: xv, 17. 12 Aug 1843. common name: Monocots       Subclassis  Commelinidae Takht. pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 171. Jan-Mar 1967. common name: Grasses, Sedges, Rushes       SuperOrdo  Juncanae Takht. pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 510. Jan-Mar 1967.       Ordo  Poales Small pub. Fl. S.E. U.S.: 48. 1903.       Familia  Poaceae (R. Br.) Barnh. pub. Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 22: 7. 15 Jan 1895, nom. cons. common name: Gramineae       Subtribus  Cenchrinae Dumort. pub. Anal. Fam. Pl.: 64. 1829.    Genus  Cenchrus L. pub. (1753) common name: sandbur

Named members of the Genus Cenchrus

1	Species  agrimonioides Trin.
	2    Varietas  agrimonioides common name: kamanomano 3    Varietas  laysanensis F. Br. common name: kamanomano
4	Species  barbatus Schumacher syn. Cenchrus biflorus
5	Species  biflorus Roxb. common name: Indian sandburr
6	Species  brownii Roemer & J.A. Schultes common name: slimbristle sandbur
7	Species  carolinianus Walt. syn. Cenchrus longispinus
8	Species  catharticus Delile syn. Cenchrus biflorus
9	Species  ciliaris L. syn. Pennisetum ciliare var. ciliare
10	Species  echinatus L.
	11    Varietas  hillebrandianus (A.S. Hitchc.) F. Br. syn. Cenchrus echinatus
12	Species  gracillimus Nash common name: slender sandbur
13	Species  granularis L. syn. Hackelochloa granularis
14	Species  incertus M.A. Curtis syn. Cenchrus spinifex
15	Species  longisetus M.C. Johnston syn. Pennisetum villosum
16	Species  longispinus (Hack.) Fern. common name: mat sandbur
17	Species  myosuroides Kunth common name: big sandbur
18	Species  nervosus (Nees) Kuntze syn. Pennisetum nervosum
19	Species  parviceps Shinners syn. Cenchrus spinifex
20	Species  pauciflorus Benth. syn. Cenchrus spinifex
21	Species  pedunculatus O. Deg. & Whitney syn. Cenchrus agrimonioides var. laysanensis
22	Species  racemosus L. syn. Tragus racemosus
23	Species  setigerus Vahl syn. Pennisetum ciliare var. setigerum
24	Species  spinifex Cav. common name: coastal sandbur
25	Species  tribuloides L. common name: sanddune sandbur
26	Species  viridis Spreng. syn. Cenchrus brownii

Individual specimen entries are published in the sample database supplied with The Compleat Botanica for species or varieties of this supra-generic taxon.

For a description of the methodology followed in establishing this hierarchy see the note Nomenclature used in The Compleat Botanica.